Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Is enlarging the xid field something we should consider for 8.4?
>
> No. We just got the tuple header down to 24 bytes, we are not going
> to give that back and then some.
>
> If you are processing 6K transactions per second, you can afford to
> vacuum every couple days... and probably need to vacuum much more often
> than that anyway, to avoid table bloat.
>
> Possibly your respondent should think about trying to do more than one
> thing per transaction?
OK, yea, I think that makes sense.
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