Thanks to all and especially Andy for pointing me to this paper :)

Laurent

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 26/10/11 08:39, Dave Reynolds wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 21:38 +0200, Laurent Pellegrino wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to retrieve the last N quadruples which have been
>>> inserted into a Jena TDB datastore when the quadruples which have been
>>> inserted do not contain any information about their publication time
>>> (e.g. a jena built-in function to use in order to order by using the
>>> internal identifiers used by the repository)?
>>
>> I don't believe there is such an insert timestamp available.
>
> There is no such timestamp.
>
> There was a paper at ISWC2011 that suggested using timestamps on something
> (e.g. B+Tree blocks) to guide caching. [1]
>
> But as Greg (The presenter) said, "it cuts through every layer of
> abstraction in a system to provide that information." and various
> implementers in the audience smirked.
>
> So a system derived from TDB to add it maybe done by someone who s'
> interested.  Also, for most users, it would be a noticable cost.
>
>        Andy
>
>
> [1]
> Enabling fine-grained HTTP caching of SPARQL query results
> Gregory Todd Williams and Jesse Weave
>
> http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/fileadmin/iswc/Papers/Research_Paper/03/70310752.pdf
>
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>
>

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