Tom Lane wrote: > Horst Herb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tuesday 14 August 2001 02:25, you wrote: > >> I still think that expanding transaction IDs (XIDs) to 8 bytes is no help. > > > But what about all of us who need to establish a true long term audit trail? > > For us, still the most elegant solution would be a quasi unlimited supply of > > unique row identifiers. 64 bit would be a huge help (and will be ubiquitous > > in a few years time anyway). > > Uh, that has nothing to do with transaction identifiers ... And he who needs that kind of long term row identifiers would be better off with 8-byte sequences anyway - IMNSVHO. Jan -- #======================================================================# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] # _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])