Re: 64-bit queryId?

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 64-bit queryId?
Date: 2017-10-03 08:06:20
Message-ID: CAB7nPqRT5jCEvPdwHCOA7PWMBNYAnxxS03nkCqcB5cRYJh8aUA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On 2017-10-03 03:07:09 +0300, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:32 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> +1,
>> I see 3 options there:
>> 1) Drop high-order bit, as you proposed.
>> 2) Allow negative queryIds.
>> 3) Implement unsigned 64-type.
>
> 4) use numeric, efficiency when querying is not a significant concern here
> 5) use a custom type that doesn't support arithmetic, similar to pg_lsn.

Why not just returning a hexa-like text?
--
Michael

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