This is a follow-up to the previous commit.
Each CDC generation has a timestamp which denotes a logical point in time
when this generation starts operating. That same timestamp is
used to identify the CDC generation. We use this identification scheme
to exchange CDC generations around the cluster.
However, the fact that a generation's timestamp is used as an ID for
this generation is an implementation detail of the currently used method
of managing CDC generations.
Places in the code that deal with the timestamp, e.g. functions which
take it as an argument (such as handle_cdc_generation) are often
interested in the ID aspect, not the "when does the generation start
operating" aspect. They don't care that the ID is a `db_clock::time_point`.
They may sometimes want to retrieve the time point given the ID (such as
do_handle_cdc_generation when it calls `cdc::metadata::insert`),
but they don't care about the fact that the time point actually IS the ID.
In the future we may actually change the specific type of the ID if we
modify the generation management algorithms.
This commit is an intermediate step that will ease the transition in the
future. It introduces a new type, `cdc::generation_id`. Inside it contains
the timestamp, so:
1. if a piece of code doesn't care about the timestamp, it just passes
the ID around
2. if it does care, it can simply access it using the `get_ts` function.
The fact that `get_ts` simply accesses the ID's only field is an
implementation detail.
Using the occasion, we change the `do_handle_cdc_generation_intercept...`
function to be a standard function, not a coroutine. It turns out that -
depending on the shape of the passed-in argument - the function would
sometimes miscompile (the compiled code would not copy the argument to the
coroutine frame).
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