Re: A couple of patches for PostgreSQL 64bit support

From: ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Koichi Suzuki <koichi(at)intellilink(dot)co(dot)jp>, Satoshi Nagayasu <nagayasus(at)nttdata(dot)co(dot)jp>, ikubo(at)intellilink(dot)co(dot)jp, yasunaga <yasunaga(dot)hisato(at)soft(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <root(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, sakata(dot)tetsuo(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp, "T(dot)Honishi" <honishi(dot)takashi(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Subject: Re: A couple of patches for PostgreSQL 64bit support
Date: 2005-07-08 00:38:07
Message-ID: 20050708093449.3CC4.ITAGAKI.TAKAHIRO@lab.ntt.co.jp
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Hans-J|rgen Schvnig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:

> 64-bit XIDs seem to be an overkill - the only practical impact I can see
> is an even larger tuple header (this can be an issue on large boxes too
> - at least compared to Oracle).

I agreed, too. The changes of XIDs cannot be ignored because the overhead
will be 32bytes per tuple.

Avoiding overheads, can XIDs/CIDs be different bit length? For example,
can XIDs/CIDs be changed to 48/16-bit or 40/24-bit?

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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Cyber Space Laboratories

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