PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook
by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli, Sudheer Kumar Meesala, Sheldon Strauch
How it works...
The table_file_access_info(schemaname, tablename) function returns the last access and modification times for a given table, using the filesystem as a source of information.
The last query uses this data to get the latest time any of these files were modified or read by PostgreSQL. Beware that this is not a very reliable way to get information about the latest use of any table, but it gives you a rough upper-limit estimate about when it was last modified or read (for example, consider the autovacuum process for accessing a table).
You can definitely improve and personalize the preceding function. I advise that you look at the PostgreSQL documentation and read about two built-in functions, pg_ls_dir(dirname text) and pg_stat_file(filename ...
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