Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.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.
I am saying timestamp as used for specifying a recovery location might
not be unique enough, no?
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