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Re: POC: make mxidoff 64 bits

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> — 2025-12-11T20:05:24Z

On 2025-Dec-11, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> That's a great question and I've been wondering about it myself. It goes all
> the way to the initial commit where multixacts were introduced, and I don't
> see any particular reason for it even back then. Even in the very first
> version of multixact.c, IMO it would've been simpler to have the writer
> handle the wraparound.
> 
> Álvaro, would you happen to remember?

Sorry, I have no recollections of the reason why it was done this way.

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