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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 -- Ed Hartnett -- ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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