Horton

Re: Increase value of OUTER_VAR

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

View thread View on postgr.es
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Andrey Lepikhov <a.lepikhov@postgrespro.ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-03-03T15:06:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> writes:
> Also, I got reminded of this discussion from not so long ago:

> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/16302-e45634e2c0e34e97%40postgresql.org

Yeah.  Nobody seems to have pursued Peter's idea of changing the magic
values to small negative ones, but that seems like a nicer idea than
arguing over what large positive value is large enough.

(Having said that, I remain pretty dubious that we're anywhere near
getting any real-world use out of such a change.)

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Remove arbitrary 64K-or-so limit on rangetable size.

  2. More cleanups of the include files