| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)coretech(dot)co(dot)nz> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com, Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>, Russell Smith <mr-russ(at)pws(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Data loss, vacuum, transaction wrap-around |
| Date: | 2005-02-20 05:30:17 |
| Message-ID: | 11421.1108877417@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)coretech(dot)co(dot)nz> writes:
> To be fair to Mark, there does seem to be an increasing number of
> reports of this issue. In spite of the in-the-works fix for 8.1, it
> would be a pity to see customers losing data from xid wrap-around.
The question is whether we are willing to back-patch a fairly large
amount of not-very-well-tested code into 8.0. See
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-02/msg00123.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-02/msg00127.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-02/msg00131.php
I personally don't think it's worth the risk. The code works well
enough to commit to development tip, but it's fundamentally alpha
quality code.
regards, tom lane
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