audit trail, take 2

[Derek Atkins]

Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.com> writes:

> 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.

Yes, this is correct.  xaction_id uniquely identifies the complete
history of a single transaction.

> dave

-derek

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