Re: [PATCHES] WIP: write flat files at startup, enforce XID wrap limit

2005-02-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Comments? I personally think that this is too large a patch to risk committing into the 8.0 branch, but I suppose it depends on your level of concern about the XID wrap hazard. (The patch does appear to apply cleanly to the 8.0 branch, but I've not tested it there.) I'd

Re: [PATCHES] WIP: write flat files at startup, enforce XID wrap limit

2005-02-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: format of the pg_pwd and pg_group flat files: group membership has to be recorded in terms of user sysids not user names, so that we can avoid doing SysCache lookups in write_group_file. That's a This also expands the problems of reusing user ids for deleted users, but I agree