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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: 2002-08-05T16:54:35Z
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I don't have trouble with 128, but other than standards compliance,  I
> > can't see many people getting >64 names.
> 
> One nice thing about 128 is you can basically forget about the weird
> truncation behavior on generated sequence names for serial columns
> --- "tablename_colname_seq" will be correct for essentially all
> practical cases.  At 64 you might still need to think about it.

Oh, good point.  Does anyone remember the performance hit for 64 vs 128
namedatalen?

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