On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Tom Lane wrote:
> Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com> wrote:
>>> So I think XID overflow should be planned for one of the next PostgreSQL
>>> releases.
>
>> two mitigating factors:
>> 1. read only transactions do not increment xid counter
>
> Yes. Ask your admin what his throughput of *data modifying*
> transactions is. I'll bet that number is a few orders of magnitude
> smaller again.
That were all small writing transactions benchmarking the database (with
the corrected values discussed).
Ciao,
Gerhard
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