Comment 2 for bug 685814

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote : Re: [Bug 685814] Re: please improve getPublishedSource() created_since_date API description

On Monday 06 December 2010 18:06:25 you wrote:
> Michael, are you using the 'most recent date you saw returned', or
> 'most recent date your script ran on' - the former should be safe, the
> latter unsafe.
>
> I agree we'll want to be clearer about this, but I'd like to note that
> its a general principle when you have any sort of replication in play.

The code was written so that you could pass back in the actual timestamp of
the last record that you received and it will continue from where it left off.

That's the bit that needs clarifying in the documentation :)