fix: Update view version log timestamp for historical accuracy #1218
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What changes are included in this PR?
This change updates the behavior when setting a view version as current. When we set a previously existing view version as current, we now update its log timestamp to the current time rather than reusing the original timestamp of the ViewVersion.
Lets assume the following changes:
This resulted in the following
version_log
:Note that the last and first entries have the same timestamp, namely the time stamp of the initial ViewVersion creation.
I believe this is undesired in a history, where we are interested when a certain change became active. It makes sense to use the exact timestamp of the ViewVersion if it was added in the same set of changes, but re-enabling a previously used view version (maybe years ago) should not add a history for this past timestamp.
Java behaviors the same way as rust currently does. @Fokko @nastra if we agree that we should change the behavior, we should also touch Java.
Are these changes tested?
Yes