Re: Fix token exceeding NAMELEN - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Fix token exceeding NAMELEN
Date
Msg-id 1150.1431657349@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Fix token exceeding NAMELEN  ("Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@gentoo.org>)
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"Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@gentoo.org> writes:
> On 2015-05-13 18:16, Christopher Browne wrote:
>> I thought that this restriction was alleviated years ago, so I'm a bit
>> surprised to see this come up in 2015.  (Or perhaps Gentoo hasn't
>> yet opened up some limits???  :-) )

> The restriction is alleviated (patched) by some distributions, and
> Gentoo isn't among those.

> It has been almost 4 years (the most recent Google has found) since the
> last time this happened with PostgreSQL's docs.
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/BANLkTiktW6SRDygVfJRB4q+7dvWoQCC1Yg@mail.gmail.com

Ah, so we have hit it before and forgotten.  Might as well stick to the
previous decision then.  Patch applied, thanks!
        regards, tom lane



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