> BTW, there is at least a small potential for breaking applications with
> this change: NAMEDATALEN is part of the exported libpq ABI, because it
> affects the representation of PGnotify structures. When and if we do
> change the standard setting, I'm inclined to reverse the order of the
> fields in PGnotify, so that accesses to be_pid don't depend on
> NAMEDATALEN.
Would this also not break the method used to create SERIAL sequence names? I
know that I would have to fix a method I've written to calculate the
sequence name for a SERIAL field, and I suspect a few others have as well.
I'd be more than happy to fix it for a longer name though...
Greg
