I think we agreed on pg_postmaster_start_time() so it is clear it is the
postmaster, and not the session.

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

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It will be applied as soon as one of the PostgreSQL committers reviews
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> > I think we should return intervals only when we can't return
> > meaningful
> > timestamp values. I don't have any logic to back up that opinion,
> > though.
> >
> Agreed.
>
> >
> > We need to preceed our function names with pg_ for cases like this
> > where
> > we are supplying pg-specific behavior.
> >
> Agreed.
>
> An updated version of the patch is attached. It is just implement
> 'pg_start_time' function that works in multi-user and stand-alone. Docs
> is attached too.
>
> Comments?
>
>
> Euler Taveira de Oliveira
> euler[at]yahoo_com_br
>
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