> Tape? Whats that?
We are old fashioned at Salesforce. We will also likely have SLAs for this data :) > WALs are not compressed. Archiving could compress them. They should > compress well. I wonder if archived WALs (I mean the ones in .oldlogs) should not always be compressed(?) > Roughly, yes. Counters would be a pain if we double-counted. Are the counters logged with their deltas or resulting value? > > Are the sequenceIds globally ordered? I wonder if they even need to be. > > > > They are not globally ordered. They are in order within the WAL. In that case we cannot decide the ordering of edits as they could be temporally interleaved between the WALs. But except for .META. edits it might not matter. Hmm... Lots of issues to work out.
