"Theo Schlossnagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As the clock must be incremented clusterwide, the need for it to be insync > with > the system clock (on any or all of the systems) is obviated. In fact, as you > can't guarantee the synchronicity means that it can be confusing -- one > expects a time-based clock to be accurate to the time. A counter-based clock > has no such expectations.
So if the nodes get split they can keep operating independently but clients can see that there's no guarantee of ordering against transactions from other nodes because the clock isn't advancing? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend