Re: POC: make mxidoff 64 bits

Hi Maxim
Thanks for your continued efforts to get XID64 implemented.
> 32kB page may contain then 2^13-2 offsets, each is maxed by 2^18+1.
> Therefore, offset from base will never overflow 2^31 and will always
> fit uint32.

> It appears logical to me.
Agree +1 , but I have a question: I remember the XID64 patch got split into
a few threads. How are these threads related? The original one was seen as
too big a change, so it was broken up after people raised concerns.

Thanks

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM Maxim Orlov <orlovmg(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Sat, 13 Sept 2025 at 16:34, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
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>> Therefore, we can change from each 8 of 32-bit multixact offsets
>> (takes 32-bytes) to one 64-bit offset + 7 of 24-bit offset increments
>> (takes 29-bytes). The actual multixact offsets can be calculated at
>> the fly, overhead shouldn't be significant. What do you think?
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> Thank you for your review; I'm pleased to hear from you again.
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> Yes, because the maximum number of mxoff is limited by the number of
> running transactions, we may do it that way.
> However, it is a bit wired to have offsets with the 7-byte "base".
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> I believe we may take advantage of the 64XID patch's notion of putting a
> 8 byte base followed by 4 byte offsets for particular page.
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> 32kB page may contain then 2^13-2 offsets, each is maxed by 2^18+1.
> Therefore, offset from base will never overflow 2^31 and will always
> fit uint32.
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> It appears logical to me.
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> Best regards,
> Maxim Orlov.
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