Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] [PATCH] Provide 8-byte transaction IDs to user level

2006-07-28 Thread Marko Kreen
On 7/27/06, Darcy Buskermolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In one of those 3am lightbulbs I belive I have a way to make use of the 64-bit XID counter and still maintain the ability to have backwards compatibility. Is there any chance you could break this patch up into the 2 separate componenets tha

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] [PATCH] Provide 8-byte transaction IDs to user level

2006-07-27 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 14:27, Darcy Buskermolen wrote: > On Wednesday 26 July 2006 14:03, Tom Lane wrote: > > Darcy Buskermolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> The question though is if we did that, would Slony actually use it? > > > > > > If it made sence to do it, then yes we would do it. T

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] [PATCH] Provide 8-byte transaction IDs to user level

2006-07-26 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Darcy Buskermolen wrote: > On Wednesday 26 July 2006 14:03, Tom Lane wrote: > > Darcy Buskermolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> The question though is if we did that, would Slony actually use it? > > > > > > If it made sence to do it, then yes we would do it. The problem ends up > > > being Sl

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] [PATCH] Provide 8-byte transaction IDs to user level

2006-07-26 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 14:03, Tom Lane wrote: > Darcy Buskermolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The question though is if we did that, would Slony actually use it? > > > > If it made sence to do it, then yes we would do it. The problem ends up > > being Slony is designed to work across a mult

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] [PATCH] Provide 8-byte transaction IDs to user level

2006-07-26 Thread Tom Lane
Darcy Buskermolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The question though is if we did that, would Slony actually use it? > If it made sence to do it, then yes we would do it. The problem ends up being > Slony is designed to work across a multitude of versions of PG, and unless > this was backported t

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] [PATCH] Provide 8-byte transaction IDs to user level

2006-07-26 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 13:04, 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. > > T

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] [PATCH] Provide 8-byte transaction IDs to user level

2006-07-26 Thread Tom Lane
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 cor