Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> Well, one long-running transaction that only has a single XID is not
> really a problem: the snapshot is still small.  But one very old
> transaction that also happens to have a large number of
> subtransactions all of which have XIDs assigned might be a good way to
> stress the system.

That's a good point.  If the ring buffer size creates a constraint on
the maximum number of sub-XIDs per transaction, you're going to need a
fallback path of some sort.

                        regards, tom lane

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