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
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> 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.

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