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

It looks like no way to get the creation timestamp of tables in Redshift. One workaround is using STL_DDLTEXT table which records a history of DDLs including CREATE TABLE.

Here is an example (test_table is a table name):

dev=> select starttime, endtime, trim(text) as ddl from stl_ddltext where text ilike '%create%table%test_table%' order by endtime desc limit 1;
         starttime          |          endtime           |                                                               ddl
----------------------------+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 2016-04-25 05:38:11.666338 | 2016-04-25 05:38:11.674947 | CREATE TABLE "test_table" (id int primary key, value varchar(24));
(1 row)

In the above case, starttime or endtime will be a timestamp of the test_table table creation.

NOTE:

• Redshift does not keep STL_DDLTEXT for a long time, so you cannot use this way permanently.
• You cannot use this way if the table is created through other ways like renaming a table name.