Re: PostgreSQL 64 Bit XIDs - Transaction IDs - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PostgreSQL 64 Bit XIDs - Transaction IDs
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Msg-id 24680.1332529075@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL 64 Bit XIDs - Transaction IDs  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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Re: PostgreSQL 64 Bit XIDs - Transaction IDs
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Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com> wrote:
>> So I think XID overflow should be planned for one of the next PostgreSQL
>> releases.

> two mitigating factors:
> 1. read only transactions do not increment xid counter

Yes.  Ask your admin what his throughput of *data modifying*
transactions is.  I'll bet that number is a few orders of magnitude
smaller again.

> 2. xid wraparound counter is per table.

That unfortunately isn't so, the XID counter is global to an installation.

            regards, tom lane

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