Re: Keeping creation time of objects

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo(at)ttmail(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Keeping creation time of objects
Date: 2008-09-10 13:38:04
Message-ID: 20080910133804.GA4399@alvh.no-ip.org
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Hannu Krosing wrote:

> Timestamps should rather be considered a forensic tool.
>
> You may have the best VCS system, but if somebody bypasses it, you may
> still need to find out, when it was done.

So you're arguing for modification time, which is not was Devrim is
proposing -- he's proposing creation time.

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