Re: [PATCHES] [PATCH] Provide 8-byte transaction IDs to user level

Darcy Buskermolen <darcyb@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> The question though is if we did that, would Slony actually use it?

> If it made sence to do it, then yes we would do it. The problem ends up being
> Slony is designed to work across a multitude of versions of PG, and unless
> this was backported to at least 7.4, it would take a while (ie when we
> stopped supporting versions older than it was ported into)  before we would
> make use of it.

[ shrug... ]  That's not happening; for one thing the change requires a
layout change in pg_control and we have no mechanism to do that without
initdb.

            regards, tom lane