Re: An idle thought - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: An idle thought
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Msg-id 1269293700.4053.6031.camel@monkey-cat.sm.truviso.com
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In response to Re: An idle thought  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 16:48 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I don't think we want to move to 64-bit xids becasue we would still need
> to do vacuum freeze to trim the clog.  In fact we do vacuum freeze much
> more frequently than required for 32-bit xids for this very reason.

Good point. I think there are a lot of issues like this, which would
make storing the visibility information separate from the heap a huge
undertaking. Still worth thinking about, though.

Regards,Jeff Davis



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