On 2018-07-10 10:32:44 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 10 July 2018 at 07:35, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> > wrote: > > > > > I played around with this idea yesterday. Experiment-grade patch > > attached. Approach: > > > > 1. Introduce a new type BigTransactionId (better names welcome). > > > > txid_current() should be changed to BigTransactionId too. It's currently > bigint.
That's quite a bit more work though, no? We'd have to introduce a new SQL level type (including operators). As I said nearby, I think that's a good idea, but I don't see any sort of benefit of forcing those patches to be done at once.
