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From Zdenek Kotala
Subject Re: How to avoid transaction ID wrap
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In response to Re: How to avoid transaction ID wrap  (Koichi Suzuki <suzuki.koichi@oss.ntt.co.jp>)
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Koichi Suzuki wrote:
> I've once proposed a patch for 64bit transaction ID, but this causes 
> some overhead to each tuple (XMIN and XMAX).   Pgbench with 64bit 
> transaction ID has to pay about a couple of percent of performance.   
> If 64bit transaction ID is a reasonable fix,  I've already posted this 
> patch.   Anyone can apply this to later versions.
Did you check performance on 32-bit or 64-bit systems and 64-bit binary 
version of PGSQL? I think that today is not problem to have 64-bit 
architecture and 64-bit ID should increase scalability of Postgres.
      Zdenek

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