From 85eb066ecdba647fcf972425d67266271e35d5cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:40:07 -0500 Subject: Fix ancient docs/comments thinko: XID comparison is mod 2^32, not 2^31. Pointed out by Gianni Ciolli. --- doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/src') diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml index 385ee20d0cf..59d521b23b6 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ PostgreSQL distinguishes a special XID FrozenXID. This XID is always considered older than every normal XID. Normal XIDs are - compared using modulo-231 arithmetic. This means + compared using modulo-232 arithmetic. This means that for every normal XID, there are two billion XIDs that are older and two billion that are newer; another way to say it is that the normal XID space is circular with no -- cgit v1.2.3