Another idea would be to provide some means to roll a database forwards
and backwards. If you're doing a recovery because you did something like
an accidental UPDATE SET field = blah without a where clause, what you
really care about is going up to the point right before that update. If
there's a log viewer with enough detail, that would suffice; otherwise
you'd need to test for some specific condition.
Of course timestamps would still be useful in this scenario since they
can get you close to the transaction in question.
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