On 10 July 2018 at 10:40, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > On 2018-07-10 10:32:44 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > > On 10 July 2018 at 07:35, Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@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. >
Yeah. You're right. One step at a time. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
