Re: Increasing the length of

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-11-07T23:28:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 20:59, Greg Stark wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> 
> > > I'd vote in favour of relaxing the limit entirely, as Sean suggests.
> > 
> > The choice is not between "limit" and "no limit", it is between
> > "limit" and "broken".
> 
> What do you think is broken about fragmented UDP packets?
> 

...probably that pgstat.c doesn't handle them at all, so if they occur
then you've lost data. Until that is fixed, we have a limit.

-- 
Best Regards, Simon Riggs