Re: Proposal: Commit timestamp - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Proposal: Commit timestamp
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Msg-id 15256.1169772108@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Proposal: Commit timestamp  (Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>)
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Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> On 1/25/2007 6:47 PM, Neil Conway wrote:
>> Would this feature have any use beyond the specific project/algorithm
>> you have in mind?

> The tablelog project on pgfoundry currently uses the transactions start 
> time but would be very delighted to have the commit time available instead.

BTW, it's not clear to me why you need a new log area for this.  (We
don't log transaction start time anywhere, so certainly tablelog's needs
would not include it.)  Commit timestamps are available from WAL commit
records in a crash-and-restart scenario, so wouldn't that be enough?
        regards, tom lane


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