Re: FUNC_MAX_ARGS benchmarks

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

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

To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

Cc: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2002-08-11T00:22:38Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Do we have agreement to increate FUNC_MAX_ARGS to 32?

I believe so.

> 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.

It seems fairly clear to me that there *are* performance problems,
at least in some scenarios.  I think we should go to 64.  There doesn't
seem to be a lot of real-world demand for more than that, despite what
the spec says ...

			regards, tom lane