Quincey Koziol <koziol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I was planning on including a hidden field to disambiguate objects that
> were created at the same time, so this wouldn't happen. Since there's no
> advantage to using a creation order field instead of using the creation time
> when determining the n'th object inserted into a group (when factoring deleted
> objects into the equation), I'm still leaning toward using a time instead of
> an
> index for this purpose. Using the time provides the same functionality and
> adds information as well.
>
> I'm still somewhat split on the issue however and would welcome persuasive
> arguments in favor of one mechanism or the other. :-) I'm also thinking
> about
> including both fields (creation order and creation time) and allowing users to
> create an index on either, to suit their particular needs...
Quincey,
What happens is a machine with an inaccurate time adds a variable to a
dataset?
Ed
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