"Marko Kreen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8/21/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not following the point here. Dump and restore has never intended >> to preserve the transaction counter, so why should it preserve >> high-order bits of the transaction counter?
> Thus it guarantees that any new issued large txid's will be larger > than existing ones in tables. Thus code can depend on monotonous > growth. Within a single installation, sure, but I don't buy that we ought to try to preserve XIDs across installations. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend