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Fix ancient docs/comments thinko: XID comparison is mod 2^32, not 2^31.

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Pointed out by Gianni Ciolli.
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Tom Lane 2013-12-12 12:39:48 -05:00
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doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
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@ -401,7 +401,7 @@
as <literal>FrozenXID</>. This XID does not follow the normal XID
comparison rules and is always considered older
than every normal XID. Normal XIDs are
compared using modulo-2<superscript>31</> arithmetic. This means
compared using modulo-2<superscript>32</> arithmetic. This means
that for every normal XID, there are two billion XIDs that are
<quote>older</> and two billion that are <quote>newer</>; another
way to say it is that the normal XID space is circular with no

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src/backend/access/transam/transam.c
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@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ TransactionIdPrecedes(TransactionId id1, TransactionId id2)
{
/*
* If either ID is a permanent XID then we can just do unsigned
* comparison. If both are normal, do a modulo-2^31 comparison.
* comparison. If both are normal, do a modulo-2^32 comparison.
*/
int32 diff;