On 11/12/2025 22:05, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
On 2025-Dec-11, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
That's a great question and I've been wondering about it myself. It goes all
the way to the initial commit where multixacts were introduced, and I don't
see any particular reason for it even back then. Even in the very first
version of multixact.c, IMO it would've been simpler to have the writer
handle the wraparound.
Álvaro, would you happen to remember?
Sorry, I have no recollections of the reason why it was done this way.
Ok, I have pushed this. Thanks!
- Heikki
