audit trail, take 2

[David Merrill]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:39:43PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> David Merrill writes:
> > 
> > The xaction_id is not globally unique. If a record is edited 9 times,
> > there will be 10 records with the same id. Once for the record
> > originally created, and once for each edit.
> > 
> > The guid is globally unique. Each of these records would have different
> > guids.
> 
> Right. What I meant was, can we make xaction_id globally unique
> under the equivalence relation 
> 
> Transaction t1 == Transaction t2 iff t1 is an update of t2 or
>                                      t2 is an update of t1?
> 
> So that xaction_id globally uniquely identifies the equivalence
> class.

You're talking right over my head.

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