On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 1/3/13 3:26 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> It's true, as we've often
>> said here, that leveraging the OS facilities means that we get the
>> benefit of improving OS facilities "for free" - but it also means that
>> we never exceed what the OS facilities are able to provide.
>
> And that should be the deciding factor, shouldn't it? Clearly, the OS
> timestamps do not satisfy the requirements of tracking database object
> creation times.
Yes, I think so.
But I am not entirely sold on tracking the creation time of every SQL
object. It might be all right, but what about catalog bloat?
I am on board for databases, and for tables, at any rate.
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Robert Haas
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