Re: FUNC_MAX_ARGS benchmarks

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-11T01:20:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> OK, seems we have not come to a decision yet on this.
> 
> Do we have agreement to increate FUNC_MAX_ARGS to 32?
> 
> NAMEDATALEN will be 64 or 128 in 7.3.  At this point, we better decide
> which one we prefer.
> 
> The conservative approach would be to go for 64 and perhaps increase it
> again in 7.4 after we get feedback and real-world usage.  If we go to
> 128, we will have trouble decreasing it if there are performance
> problems.

I guess I'd also agree with:
   FUNC_MAX_ARGS 32
   NAMEDATALEN 64
and work on the performance issues for 7.4.

Joe