Re: [HACKERS] Changing oidvector length - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Changing oidvector length
Date
Msg-id 200001110234.VAA03529@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Changing oidvector length  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> You may have gotten confused because fmgr.c allowed 9 args to be passed,
> >> even though there's no way to declare such a function; I think this was
> >> a hack to support some special system usage --- possibly selectivity
> >
> > btbuild, I believe.
> 
> Ah, you are right (it just blew up on me when I tried it at eight ;-)).
> 
> >> But if we are going to
> >> increase the default MAX_ARGS above 8 then the issue goes away anyway,
> >> and there's no need for fmgr.c to support more args than can normally
> >> be declared.
> 
> This still holds though --- we will just require INDEX_MAX_ARGS to be
> at least 9 from here on out...

But it bombs on 16.

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