Re: NAMEDATALEN and performance - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: NAMEDATALEN and performance
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Msg-id 19764.1164815445@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to NAMEDATALEN and performance  (Alessandro Baretta <a.baretta@studio.baretta.com>)
Responses Re: NAMEDATALEN and performance  (Alessandro Baretta <a.baretta@studio.baretta.com>)
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Alessandro Baretta <a.baretta@studio.baretta.com> 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

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