Hi, > I seriously doubt that _age values exceeding INT32_MAX would be > useful, even in the still-extremely-doubtful situation that we > get to true 64-bit XIDs. But if you think we must have that, > we could still use float8 GUCs for them. float8 is exact up > to 2^53 (given IEEE math), and you certainly aren't going to > convince me that anyone needs _age values exceeding that. > For that matter, an imprecise representation of such an age > limit would still be all right wouldn't it?
Considering the recent feedback. I'm marking the corresponding CF entry as "Rejected". Thanks to everyone involved! -- Best regards, Aleksander Alekseev