Re: TODO list - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jon Jensen
Subject Re: TODO list
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.58.0401062029280.1303@louche.swelter.net
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In response to Re: TODO list  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: TODO list  (Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com>)
Re: TODO list  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> >Also, I would like to see some kind of session identifier that is more
> >unique than pid, which wraps around.  Ideally we could have 10{pid},
> >then then the pid wraps around, 20{pid), or something like that.
> 
> This requires some thought. ISTM it wouldn't buy you much unless you 
> made it persistent across server restarts, and possibly not even then.

And on OpenBSD (though no other platforms that I know of) the PID is a
random number, so there is no "wrapping" to begin with.

Jon


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