Re: timestamp fields and order by? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: timestamp fields and order by?
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Msg-id 26079.1262810799@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to timestamp fields and order by?  (Steve Wampler <swampler@noao.edu>)
Responses Re: timestamp fields and order by?  (Steve Wampler <swampler@noao.edu>)
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Steve Wampler <swampler@noao.edu> writes:
> It appears as though the timestamp resolution is now low
> enough that it cannot keep up with the speed at which
> items can be inserted.

Your example looks like what's being called is current_timestamp(3),
or else something on the client side is rounding it off to 3 digits.
The bare function will give whatever resolution the operating system
supplies, down to microseconds at best (the limit of the POSIX API for
this).

Even so, though, I think it would be quite foolish to design an
application around the assumption that the timestamps of successive
insertions will be distinguishable.  Put in a serial column.

            regards, tom lane

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