Each CDC generation always has a timestamp, but the fact that the
timestamp identifies the generation is an implementation detail.
We abstract away from this detail by using a more generic naming scheme:
a generation "identifier" (whatever that is - a timestamp or something
else).
It's possible that a CDC generation will be identified by more than a
timestamp in the (near) future.
The actual string gossiped by nodes in their application state is left
as "CDC_STREAMS_TIMESTAMP" for backward compatibility.
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