[ZODB-Dev] Why DO we use timestamps as transaction ids?

[Dieter Maurer]

Jim Fulton wrote at 2006-10-5 13:58 -0400:
> ...
>> With integer keys, you would not be able to pack to something
>> like n days before -- as you do not have any time in your
>> storage file....
>
>You would still need to track times, but you could manage
>this as transaction meta data, rather than using it as an id.

Yes, but the only thing I would gain, is that I would not need
to worry about uniqueness of the timestamps -- which is
a very small part of the overall complexity.



-- 
Dieter