On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Kay Sievers <kay.siev...@vrfy.org> wrote:
> It's called a 'cursor', a text string that is portable even across
> machines, it will point to the closest possible record in the stream.
> In the idea it's like the git commit hash that identifies a commit, in
> the journal context it's just not a number but a magic text string
> with multiple values which are matched against the data in the journal
> streams.

Excellent, thanks. That was what I was looking for.

Rainer
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