Is there any way to find table creation date in redshift?

Question

I am having trouble with finding table creation date in Amazon Redshift. I know svv_table_info will give all the info about the table but the creation date.Can anyone help pleas

Answer 1

There is a proper way to get table creation date and time in Redshift, that is not based on query log:

SELECT
TRIM(nspname) AS schema_name,
TRIM(relname) AS table_name,
relcreationtime AS creation_time
FROM pg_class_info
LEFT JOIN pg_namespace ON pg_class_info.relnamespace = pg_namespace.oid
WHERE reltype != 0
AND TRIM(nspname) = 'my_schema';

For some reason it does not work for very old tables. The oldest date I could find on a cluster of mine was in November 2018. Maybe the creation date of tables was not recorded in pg_class_info before that date.