Re: Data loss, vacuum, transaction wrap-around

Mark Kirkwood <markir@coretech.co.nz> writes:
> To be fair to Mark, there does seem to be an increasing number of 
> reports of this issue. In spite of the in-the-works fix for 8.1, it 
> would be a pity to see customers losing data from xid wrap-around.

The question is whether we are willing to back-patch a fairly large
amount of not-very-well-tested code into 8.0.  See
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-02/msg00123.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-02/msg00127.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-02/msg00131.php

I personally don't think it's worth the risk.  The code works well
enough to commit to development tip, but it's fundamentally alpha
quality code.
        regards, tom lane