Richard Huxton wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Does anyone have any 'benefits' to implementing such a thing that we
can list? The cons appear to be easy, what about pros?
That's exactly what's bugging me --- I have not seen any particularly
strong defense of why we *should* have this function.
Your suggestion in another mail of restricting it to superusers would
eliminate most or all of the security gripes I'm raising. Whether that
still leaves it useful to the original suggestor's purpose, I dunno...
If you had a pressing need, couldn't you just hack the startup script(s)
to insert a timestamp in a suitable table?
Or am I missing something here (as usual)?
That's right, I'm not stuck with this problem I solved it with `ps`, I suggested
a global uptime function considering that postgres is not snmp capable and
for windows administrators is a bit more difficult retrieve this value.
Regards
Gaetano Mendola
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