--- Raymond O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 09/08/2007 23:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > My database is restored from a dump file every day. How I know that this > > database is up to date (as it has no timestamp in any table). > > > > If I create a file, I can know when I created it by seeing its property. > > How I can do the same thing with a back up database. > > Actually, it *would* be really handy if pg_dump included a timestamp in > the plain-text output. The version I use regularly (Windows) > doesn't...it simply says "PostgreSQL database dump" which is only > helpful to a point. :-)
If you need to, you can append your own timestamp to the dump file if you need it. I rolled this functionality into a .bat file. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
