Re: [HACKERS] new patches for 6.5.0
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <hackers@postgreSQL.org>, Pgsql Patches <pgsql-patches@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1999-05-03T19:06:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hi, > > here are some patches for 6.5.0 which I already submitted but have never > been applied. The patches are in the .tar.gz attachment at the end: > > varchar-array.patch this patch adds support for arrays of bpchar() and > varchar(), which where always missing from postgres. > > These datatypes can be used to replace the _char4, > _char8, etc., which were dropped some time ago. > > block-size.patch this patch fixes many errors in the parser and other > program which happen with very large query statements > (> 8K) when using a page size larger than 8192. > > This patch is needed if you want to submit queries > larger than 8K. Postgres supports tuples up to 32K > but you can't insert them because you can't submit > queries larger than 8K. My patch fixes this problem. > > The patch also replaces all the occurrences of `8192' > and `1<<13' in the sources with the proper constants > defined in include files. You should now never find > 8192 hardwired in C code, just to make code clearer. Applied. This was still in my mailbox, waiting. Sorry. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026