On Monday, January 24, 2022, Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 1:30 PM David G. Johnston > <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > That said, at present my two dislikes: > > > > 1) ALTER SYSTEM SKIP accepts any xid value (I need to consider further > the timing of when this resets to zero) > > > > I think this is required for future extension of this feature wherein > I think there could be multiple such xids say when we support parallel > apply workers. I think if we get a good way to do it even after the > first version like by making a xid an optional parameter. > > Extending the behavior is doable, and maybe we end up without this limitation in the future, so be it. But I’m having a hard time imagining a scenario where the xid is not already known to the system, and the user, and wants to be in effect for a very short window. David J.