Re: change NAMEDATALEN to 64 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: change NAMEDATALEN to 64
Date
Msg-id 20030715040750.GA31504@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to change NAMEDATALEN to 64  (Kathy Zhu <Kathy.Zhu@Sun.COM>)
Responses Re: change NAMEDATALEN to 64  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:10:15PM -0600, Kathy Zhu wrote:

> parallel group (13 tests):  float8 boolean float4 oid int4 int8 char int2 name t
> ext varchar bit numeric
>      boolean              ... ok
>      char                 ... ok
>      name                 ... FAILED
>
>
> I am attaching the regression.diffs file created by the regression test, which I
> don't know how to interprate.
>
> **** The question is, is it ok to fail this regression test since I do change
> the NAMEDATALEN ???

AFAICS this is testing the ability to correctly truncate the identifier
length to 31 chars, so yes, the test is supposed to fail.

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