> > 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?
Maybe the api should allow a xid only in addition to a timestamp, for use when
timestamp alone is not precise enough. That would solve the problem of not
finding the xid. I would stay away from microseconds.
Andreas
