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Re: FUNC_MAX_ARGS benchmarks

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

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.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: 2002-08-05T16:21:36Z
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> > We can always tell people who are doing embedded application work to 
> > bump *down* NAMEDATALEN.
> 
> Good point.  Okay, I'm OK with 128 ...

Yes, good point.  I think the major issue is pushing stuff out of the
cache because we have longer names.  Did we see performance hit at 128? 
Seems it more that just disk space.

I don't have trouble with 128, but other than standards compliance,  I
can't see many people getting >64 names.

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