Re: Addition to: Trouble with initdb when the #define NAMEDATALEN = 51 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

At 12:35 AM 5/12/01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>BTW, 51 is a gratuitously wasteful setting --- given alignment
>considerations, any value that's not a multiple of 4 is pointless.
>(It should work ... but it's pointless.)

Would n^2-1 or n*8 -1 be better than n^2 or n*8? 

For postgresql it's in the source somewhere, but assuming we can't look,
which would be a better bet? 

Cheerio,
Link.