On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 21:35 +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> >> Two things to fix this, and several other problems:
> >
> >> 1. Remove the messages size limits on -hackers. They serve no useful
> >> purpose, and they interfere with our development process.
> >
> > Agreed, or at least boost it up a good bit more.
>
> the question really is how much "a bit more" is - right now the limit is
> 100000 characters which limits us to ~70KB of attachments (around the
> size of the Hot-standby patch if bzip2 compressed).
>
> The SE-Postgres patch for example is ~650KB uncompressed - if we want to
> cope with uncompressed patches that large we would have to increase
> the current limit by a factor of 10 at least.
> I wonder if there are people on the list that might not want to receive
> mails that large(like users with mobile phones)?
Smart mobile phones are not going to pull down the attachment unless the
user explicitly says, pull down attachment.
However I can say I would be fairly annoyed if everytime I checked
hackers I was pulling down 5 megs in various patches.
Joshua D. Drake
>
>
> Stefan
>
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