On 2013-01-03 11:03:17 +0100, Hannu Krosing wrote: > On 12/28/2012 03:14 AM, Stephen Frost wrote: > ... > >I agree that what I was suggesting would be possible to implement with > >event triggers, but I see that as a rather advanced feature that most > >users aren't going to understand or implement. At the same time, those > >more novice users are likely to be looking for this kind of information- > >being told "oh, well, you *could* have been collecting it all along if you > >knew about event triggers" isn't a particularly satisfying answer. That's > >my 2c on it. I agree that having the example in the docs would be nice- > >examples are always good things to include. > If what you want is something close to current unix file time semantics > (ctime, mtime, atime) then why not just create a function to look up these > attributes on database directory and/or database files ?
Because too many things change those. Moving to a different tablespace, a rewriting ALTER TABLE, etc. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
