Re: XID wraparound and busy databases

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: XID wraparound and busy databases
Date: 2007-08-15 16:20:03
Message-ID: 200708151620.l7FGK3H07904@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Is enlarging the xid field something we should consider for 8.4?
>
> No. We just got the tuple header down to 24 bytes, we are not going
> to give that back and then some.
>
> If you are processing 6K transactions per second, you can afford to
> vacuum every couple days... and probably need to vacuum much more often
> than that anyway, to avoid table bloat.
>
> Possibly your respondent should think about trying to do more than one
> thing per transaction?

OK, yea, I think that makes sense.

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