You are right, I was assuming it would keep the vclock that was used to write each sibling.
In any case, as others pointed out, I think the timestamps are available from riakc_obj:get_metadatas. Mike On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Erik Søe Sørensen <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by "assuming the vclock entries are 1-1 with the > siblings". > That sounds rather like a misunderstanding of either what the vclock is, or > of how the vclock is stored in the case of siblings. > (As for the latter, only the merged vclock is stored for the entire > key/value-pair; the length of that vclock is unrelated to the number of > siblings.) > > Mobile: + 45 2636 1755 | Skype: eriksoesorensen | Twitter: @eriksoe > Trifork A/S | Margrethepladsen 4 | DK- 8000 Aarhus C | Phone : +45 8732 > 8787 | www.trifork.com > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Michael Radford [[email protected]] > Sent: 24 March 2012 19:24 > To: [email protected] > Subject: order of siblings > > Is there a way to determine what Riak thinks is the last-written > sibling (or one of them), when reading from Riak with allow_mult=true > (via the erlang protobufs api)? > > I'm writing some conflict resolution code, which in many cases should > fall back to the default strategy of last-writer-wins, and it would be > nice to use Riak's default ordering instead of embedding an extra > timestamp in the value. > > It looks like something like the unpacking of the vclock here might work: > https://gist.github.com/1380896 > > ...assuming the vclock entries are 1-1 with the siblings, but that's > not clear to me. Or maybe the siblings already come in a particular > order, oldest or newest first? > > Thanks, > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
