Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am sure you worked hard on this, but I don't see the use case, nor > > have I heard people in the community requesting such functionality. > > Perhaps pgfoundry would be a better place for this. > > The part of this that would actually be useful to put in core is > maintaining a 64-bit XID counter, ie, keep an additional counter that > bumps every time XID wraps around. This cannot be done very well from > outside core but it would be nearly trivial, and nearly free, to add > inside. Everything else in the patch could be done just as well as an > extension datatype. > > (I wouldn't do it like this though --- TransactionIdAdvance itself is > the place to bump the secondary counter.)
Agreed. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
