On 2025-Dec-11, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> That's a great question and I've been wondering about it myself. It goes all
> the way to the initial commit where multixacts were introduced, and I don't
> see any particular reason for it even back then. Even in the very first
> version of multixact.c, IMO it would've been simpler to have the writer
> handle the wraparound.
>
> Álvaro, would you happen to remember?
Sorry, I have no recollections of the reason why it was done this way.
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