Re: TODO list

From: Mario Weilguni <mweilguni(at)sime(dot)com>
To: Jon Jensen <jon(at)endpoint(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: TODO list
Date: 2004-01-06 20:44:27
Message-ID: 200401062144.27831.mweilguni@sime.com
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Am Tuesday 06 January 2004 21:30 schrieb Jon Jensen:
> 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.

Linux >= 2.6 has random pids too.

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