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+/*\r
+\r
+ Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.store.raw.xact.TransactionId\r
+\r
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more\r
+ contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with\r
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.\r
+ The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0\r
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with\r
+ the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at\r
+\r
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0\r
+\r
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software\r
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,\r
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.\r
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and\r
+ limitations under the License.\r
+\r
+ */\r
+\r
+package org.apache.derby.iapi.store.raw.xact;\r
+\r
+import org.apache.derby.iapi.services.io.Formatable;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ A transaction identifier that is only unique within a raw store, do not\r
+ ever pass this out of raw store. During reboot, all transaction Ids that\r
+ have ever generated a log record will not be reused. \r
+\r
+ However, if you put away the transaction Id of a read only transaction,\r
+ then the is no guarentee that the transactionId won't be reused when the\r
+ system reboots. It is much safer to store away the ExternalTrasanctionId\r
+ rather than the transactionId.\r
+\r
+ The equals() method for TransactionId implements by value equality.\r
+\r
+ MT - immutable\r
+\r
+*/\r
+public interface TransactionId extends Formatable {\r
+\r
+ /** \r
+ Return the maximum number of bytes the transactionId will take\r
+ to store using writeExternal.\r
+ */\r
+ int getMaxStoredSize();\r
+\r
+ /* need to write a value based HashCode() method. */\r
+}\r