Elliot Chance <[email protected]> writes:
> Wouldn't that mean at some point it would be advisable to be using 64bit
> transaction IDs? Or would that change too much of the codebase?
It's not so much "too much of the codebase" as "nobody wants another 8
bytes added to per-row overhead". Holding a transaction open for
circa 2G transactions would be disastrous anyway, because of table bloat
from inability to reclaim dead rows.
regards, tom lane
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