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Femur
on Aug 2, 2016
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An unexpected journey, a Postgres DBA's tale
I wonder is there a compelling reason that Postgres does not use 64-bit XIDs?
saurik
on Aug 2, 2016
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There are four XIDs per tuple, so a 64-bit XID would make every row 32-bytes larger. (That's a
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larger.)
stickfigure
on Aug 3, 2016
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...and yet still reasonable for many applications...
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