Re: Add 64-bit XIDs into PostgreSQL 15

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Cc: Maxim Orlov <orlovmg@gmail.com>, Shubham Khanna <khannashubham1197@gmail.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Chris Travers <chris@orioledata.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Chris Travers <chris.travers@gmail.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Fedor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>, Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@garret.ru>, Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>, Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>
Date: 2024-07-25T13:31:05Z
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  1. Add SLRU tests for 64-bit page case

  2. Make use FullTransactionId in 2PC filenames

  3. Use larger segment file names for pg_notify

  4. Index SLRUs by 64-bit integers rather than by 32-bit integers

On 25.07.24 13:09, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> However, if there is no more disaster threshold at 2^31, what is the 
>> guidance for setting these?  Or more radically, why even run 
>> transaction-count-based vacuum at all?
> 
> To allow the CLOG to be truncated. There's no disaster anymore, but 
> without freezing, the clog will grow indefinitely.

Maybe a setting similar to max_wal_size could be better for that?