Re: 64-bit CommandIds

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: 64-bit CommandIds
Date: 2008-04-24 18:43:38
Message-ID: 20080424184338.GM5593@alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > I think the case for it got a whole lot weaker in 8.3, with lazy
> > consumption of CIDs.
>
> Agreed. Let's see if we get requests for it in >= 8.3 releases.

In the original submission message you find this text:

: attached is our patch against HEAD which enables extending CommandIds
: to 64-bit. This is for enabling long transactions that really do that
: much non-read-only work in one transaction.

Question for Hans-Juergen and Zoltan: have you tested 8.3 and do you
still see the need for this?

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