On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> I think the key question here is the time for which the data needs to >> be retained. 2^32 of anything is a lot, but why keep around that >> number of records rather than more (after all, we have epochs to >> distinguish one use of a given txid from another) or fewer? > > The problem is not how much data we retain; is about how much data we > can address.
I thought I was responding to a concern about disk space utilization. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
