Re: 64 bit transaction id

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Павел Ерёмин <shnoor111gmail(at)yandex(dot)ru>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 64 bit transaction id
Date: 2019-11-04 18:39:18
Message-ID: 20191104183918.crxwzbfpr6ps7peh@development
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 10:04:09AM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
>Hi,
>
>(I've not read the rest of this thread yet)
>
>On 2019-11-04 16:07:23 +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 04:39:44PM +0300, Павел Ерёмин wrote:
>> > And yet, if I try to implement a similar mechanism, if successful, will my
>> > revision be considered?
>> >  
>>
>> Why wouldn't it be considered? If you submit a patch that demonstrably
>> improves the behavior (in this case reduces per-tuple overhead without
>> causing significant issues elsewhere), we'd be crazy not to consider it.
>
>And "without causing significant issues elsewhere" unfortunately
>includes continuing to allow pg_upgrade to work.
>

Yeah. I suppose we could have a different AM implementing this, but
maybe that's not possible ...

regards

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Tomas Vondra http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
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