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Re: 8.2 Autovacuum BUG ?


  • From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • To: Mikko Partio <mpartio(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • Cc: Pallav Kalva <pkalva(at)livedatagroup(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: 8.2 Autovacuum BUG ?
  • Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:47:44 -0400
  • Message-id: <20070831184744.GK8046@alvh.no-ip.org> <text/plain>

Mikko Partio escribió:

> Off-topic question: the documentation says that XID numbers are 32 bit.
> Could the XID be 64 bit when running on a 64 bit platform? That would
> effectively prevent wrap-around issues.

No, because they would take too much space in tuple headers.

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