Re: XID formatting and SLRU refactorings (was: Add 64-bit XIDs into PostgreSQL 15)

From: Maxim Orlov <orlovmg(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Jacob Champion <jchampion(at)timescale(dot)com>, Japin Li <japinli(at)hotmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Pavel Borisov <pashkin(dot)elfe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: XID formatting and SLRU refactorings (was: Add 64-bit XIDs into PostgreSQL 15)
Date: 2023-03-07 14:06:43
Message-ID: CACG=ezY5+P5D1UwbEC3YmP-jxiDcB21TjB11FHQT5QCb_qtugg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 15:38, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:

>
> That is true for pg_multixact/offsets. We will indeed need to add an
> epoch and introduce the concept of FullMultiXactIds for that. However,
> we can change pg_multixact/members independently of that. We can extend
> MultiXactOffset from 32 to 64 bits, and eliminate pg_multixact/members
> wraparound, while keeping multi-xids 32 bits wide.
>
> Yes, you're totally correct. If it will be committable that way, I'm all
for that.

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Best regards,
Maxim Orlov.

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