Re: Very Precision Time for Database Server

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>
To: alavoor <alavoor(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Very Precision Time for Database Server
Date: 2001-08-07 20:19:42
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0108071618020.3970-100000@aguila.protecne.cl
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On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, alavoor wrote:

Hi:

> You must maintain a very high precision and accurate time on database
> servers.
> This is required especially if you read and comapre data from different
> databases located on different
> servers at different continents. For example a database server located
> in california and another in London city.
[...]

We had to do this, and we just used NTP for the task. What's wrong about
it?

Sorry, I think this is off-topic.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]atentus(dot)com>)

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