[SERVER-62646] Choose a better name for the VectorClock component Created: 14/Jan/22 Updated: 26/Oct/23 |
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| Status: | Backlog |
| Project: | Core Server |
| Component/s: | Sharding |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | None |
| Type: | Improvement | Priority: | Major - P3 |
| Reporter: | Kaloian Manassiev | Assignee: | Backlog - Catalog and Routing |
| Resolution: | Unresolved | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | oldshardingemea, shardingemea-qw | ||
| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
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| Original Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
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| Description |
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The VectorClock class serves as the one place where store, maintain and gossip the collection of logical clocks we have in sharding (and by consequence for replica-sets as well). It has been pointed out that VectorClock is a misnomer, because the clocks are not necessarily independent from each other (there is a ordering relationship between them, where clusterTime >= configOpTime >= topologyTime). Because of this we should choose a better name. Some candidates:
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