Ann,
2.147.000.000 is only 2**31. 2**64 would be around
18.000.000.000.000.000.000. Still, I hope you encourage people to make
backups more frequently than once a year ;o)

Set

At 10:25 12.12.2002 -0500, you wrote:

>The transaction limit is 2**64, thus approximately 2.147.000.000. At
>100.000 transactions per day, you have about 5.8 years before you'll
>absolutely need to backup and restore the database. I suggest an
>annual backup/restore.