Re: XLog: how to log?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: XLog: how to log?
Date: 2004-05-11 22:07:38
Message-ID: 15762.1084313258@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Many transactions are going to have the same timestamp because that just
> isn't precise enough to choose a particular transaction.

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.

regards, tom lane

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