Re: Open 7.3 items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Open 7.3 items
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Msg-id 28487.1028129473@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Open 7.3 items  (nconway@klamath.dyndns.org (Neil Conway))
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nconway@klamath.dyndns.org (Neil Conway) writes:
>> FUNC_MAX_ARGS - disk/performance penalty for increase, 24, 32?

> Until someone takes the time to determine what the performance
> implications of this change will be, I don't think we should
> change this. Given that no one has done any testing, I'm not
> convinced that there's a lot of demand for this anyway.

The OpenACS guys really really wanted larger FUNC_MAX_ARGS (I think
they had some 25-arg functions).  And we do see questions about
increasing the limit fairly often on the lists.  I suspect we could
bump it up to 32 at little cost --- but someone should run some
experiments to verify.
        regards, tom lane


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