2012/11/21 Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Gavin Flower asks: > >> Would it be appropriate to make it a WARNING in 9.2.2, then >> increase the length in 9.3? > > No: revisions are reserved for bug fixes. This would be more of > a behavior fix and as such would go into a major version. > > Gavan Schneider wrote: >> (Wild speculation) There may be a "sweet spot" using even shorter >> identifiers than is the case now, with full disambiguation, which >> might improve overall performance. > > I really don't think the length is really a bottleneck, but others > can correct me if it is. > > Tom Lane wrote: >> There's some possible value in having a non-default option to throw >> error for overlength names, but TBH I fear that it won't buy all that >> much, because people won't think to turn it on when testing. >> >> Given the historical volume of complaints (to wit, none up to now), >> I can't get very excited about changing the behavior here. I think >> we're more likely to annoy users than accomplish anything useful. > > Well, as with many other things, a lack of complaints does not indicate > there is no problem. I've certainly seen this problem in the wild before, > but have not bothered to file an official bug report or anything. Perhaps > my bad, but the problem is out there. How would you feel about switching > from NOTICE to WARNING, Tom? That seems to make a lot more sense as we > are changing the user's input, which warrants more than a notice IMO. > > Separately, what are the objections to raising the size limit to 128? significantly larger catalog Pavel > > - -- > Greg Sabino Mullane greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx > End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ > PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201211211525 > http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iEYEAREDAAYFAlCtOYMACgkQvJuQZxSWSsjmEQCfb6GOEs7jwst1ao70L+j8IW5q > gNYAn110QAhwjuhUSW3/uexvU+StsfZz > =iw6q > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
