On 1/3/13 6:34 AM, Hannu Krosing wrote: >>> 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. > Can't we actually fix these to preserve file creation date like tar does > and still keep > unix file semantics ?
I don't think that would be a good idea, because various file system tools might actually want to look at, say, the mtime to know what to back up. Also, none of those file attributes are the *creation* time, so we wouldn't actually solve the original problem. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
