Re: Re: Proposal: Store "timestamptz" of database creation on "pg_database"

On 01/03/2013 02:30 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> I don't especially have a horse in the race, but ISTM that if you want
>> the information you want it to be able to persist across dump/restore,
>> at least optionally. If you can happily lose it when you're forced to
>> recover using a logical dump then it's not that important to you.
>
> On that point I guess we will just disagree. In my experience, if
> you are OK with a periodic pg_dump for your primary backup
> technique, then the data is just not that important to you.

Or the data doesn't change that much but in principle I agree with you.

JD


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