Re: [PERFORM] 8.2 Autovacuum BUG ?

Mikko Partio escribió:

> Off-topic question: the documentation says that XID numbers are 32 bit.
> Could the XID be 64 bit when running on a 64 bit platform? That would
> effectively prevent wrap-around issues.

No, because they would take too much space in tuple headers.

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