Re: Range Types - typo + NULL string constructor

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Range Types - typo + NULL string constructor
Date: 2011-10-26 17:28:52
Message-ID: 6811.1319650132@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I believe that we're in trouble with XIDs as soon as you have two
> active XIDs that are separated by a billion, because then you could
> have a situation where some people think a given XID is in the future
> and others think it's in the past. I have been wondering if we should
> have some sort of active guard against that scenario; I don't think we
> do at present.

Sure we do. It's covered by the XID wraparound prevention logic.

regards, tom lane

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