Re: FUNC_MAX_ARGS benchmarks

Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>

From: Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-13T21:00:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> I have applied the attached patch which changes NAMEDATALEN to 64 and
> FUNC_MAX_ARGS/INDEX_MAX_KEYS to 32.

What is the reasoning behind the following change?

Index: src/bin/psql/command.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/psql/command.c,v
retrieving revision 1.75
diff -c -r1.75 command.c
*** src/bin/psql/command.c	10 Aug 2002 03:56:23 -0000	1.75
--- src/bin/psql/command.c	13 Aug 2002 20:18:01 -0000
***************
*** 1513,1519 ****
  	sys = malloc(strlen(editorName) + strlen(fname) + 32 + 1);
  	if (!sys)
  		return false;
! 	sprintf(sys, "exec %s %s", editorName, fname);
  	result = system(sys);
  	if (result == -1)
  		psql_error("could not start editor %s\n", editorName);
--- 1513,1519 ----
  	sys = malloc(strlen(editorName) + strlen(fname) + 32 + 1);
  	if (!sys)
  		return false;
! 	snprintf(sys, 32, "exec %s %s", editorName, fname);
  	result = system(sys);
  	if (result == -1)
  		psql_error("could not start editor %s\n", editorName);

Cheers,

Neil

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