
> > I think this argument is largely a red herring ... but if it makes you
> > feel better, we could change the contents of the commit timestamp to
> > be gettimeofday() output (seconds+microseconds) instead of just time()
> > output.  That should be precise enough for practical purposes.
> 
> I am saying timestamp as used for specifying a recovery location might
> not be unique enough, no?

Maybe the api should allow a xid only in addition to a timestamp, for use when 
timestamp alone is not precise enough. That would solve the problem of not 
finding the xid. I would stay away from microseconds.

Andreas

Wed, 12 May 2004 11:20:29 +0200
"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>
Re: XLog: how to log?