Re: Range Types - typo + NULL string constructor - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Range Types - typo + NULL string constructor
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Msg-id 6811.1319650132@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Range Types - typo + NULL string constructor  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I believe that we're in trouble with XIDs as soon as you have two
> active XIDs that are separated by a billion, because then you could
> have a situation where some people think a given XID is in the future
> and others think it's in the past.  I have been wondering if we should
> have some sort of active guard against that scenario; I don't think we
> do at present.

Sure we do.  It's covered by the XID wraparound prevention logic.
        regards, tom lane


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