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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