Re: 64-bit CommandIds

[Hans-Juergen Schoenig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>]

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>   
> > > I think the case for it got a whole lot weaker in 8.3, with lazy
> > > consumption of CIDs.
> > >       
> > Agreed.  Let's see if we get requests for it in >= 8.3 releases.
> >     
>
> In the original submission message you find this text:
>
> : attached is our patch against HEAD which enables extending CommandIds
> : to 64-bit. This is for enabling long transactions that really do that
> : much non-read-only work in one transaction.
>
> Question for Hans-Juergen and Zoltan: have you tested 8.3 and do you
> still see the need for this?
>
>   

good morning,

i have seen this problem two or three times within the past 2-3 years or 
so. so, it can basically happen in the field for some special purpose 
applications but i don't see this as an every day problem. it would be 
nice to have it in.
we could also go for some special contrib module which could contain a 
patch along with some documentation but i am not quite sure how this 
fits in there.
we would of course maintain the patch.

   many thanks,

      hans

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