Re: Surviving transaction-ID wraparound, take 2

Horst Herb <hherb@malleenet.net.au> writes:
> On Tuesday 14 August 2001 02:25, you wrote:
>> I still think that expanding transaction IDs (XIDs) to 8 bytes is no help.

> But what about all of us who need to establish a true long term audit trail? 
> For us, still the most elegant solution would be a quasi unlimited supply of 
> unique row identifiers. 64 bit would be a huge help (and will be ubiquitous 
> in a few years time anyway). 

Uh, that has nothing to do with transaction identifiers ...
        regards, tom lane