Re: Add 64-bit XIDs into PostgreSQL 15

On 2022/01/06 19:24, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 13:19, Maxim Orlov <orlovmg@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Your opinions are very much welcome!
> 
> This is a review of the Int64 options patch,
> "v6-0001-Add-64-bit-GUCs-for-xids.patch"

Do we really need to support both int32 and int64 options? Isn't it enough to replace the existing int32 option with
int64one? Or how about using string-type option for very large number like 64-bit XID, like it's done for
recovery_target_xid?

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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