Re: Increasing the length of pg_stat_activity.current_query...

>> Is there any reason the length of
>> pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity.current_query is capped at 255 characters?
>
> The reason for a limit is to avoid fragmentation of UDP messages.
> I believe we've set it at 1K for 8.0, though, and if you are on
> a platform with a higher message size limit you could raise it more.

I'm confused... UDP as in the UDP/IP?  RPC caps UDP messages at 8K and 
NFS over UDP often runs at 32K...  where is UDP used in the backend?  
-sc

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Sean Chittenden