Re: tracking commit timestamps

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Ordering transactions in LSN order is very precisly the remit of the
> existing logical decoding API. Any user that wishes to see a commits
> in sequence can do so using that API. BDR already does this, as do
> other users of the decoding API. So Slony already has access to a
> useful ordering if it wishes it. We do not need to anything *on this
> patch* to enable LSNs for Slony or anyone else. I don't see any reason
> to provide the same facility twice, in two different ways.

Perhaps you could respond more specifically to concerns expressed
upthread, like:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/BLU436-SMTP28B68B9312CBE5D9125441DC870@phx.gbl

I don't see that as a dumb argument on the face of it.

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