On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 15:43, Mark Hammond <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not really up on this in any detail, but isn't there the possibility > that 'y' will have had the same edit performed on 2 different nodes, while > 'x' was only edited on one of them. The change to 'y' will not be > replicated at all between the 2 nodes with identical edits, whereas 'x' will > - meaning 'x' will be seen to arrive later than 'y' on one of the nodes?
Totally. Depending on any particular seq order is probably a bad idea. I don't think it's appropriate to assume seq is at all meaningful except for sending back in the ?since parameter to _changes. seq for one server should never be assumed to be meaningful on another.
