Alessandro Baretta <a.baretta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am considering the possibility of rebuilding the server with > NAMEDATALEN equal to 256. I have seen an interesting thread [1] about > the performance impact of raising NAMEDATALEN, but it did not seem > conclusive. More to the point, tests done on 7.2-era code shouldn't be assumed to be relevant to modern PG releases. I think you'll need to do your own benchmarking if you want to find out the costs of doing this. regards, tom lane