On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 10:33 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2007 10:06 schrieb Simon Riggs:
> > Recovery considerations mean there can be more than one copy of a
> > database and it is important to be able to tell which one was just
> > started. The time a database was shutdown defines which copy we are
> > looking at.
> 
> No, the database identifier defines that.

No, it doesn't.

As I said, there can be more than one copy of the *same* database.

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  Simon Riggs             
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