Tom Lane wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
>>>> 1. Remove the messages size limits on -hackers. They serve no useful
>>>> purpose, and they interfere with our development process.
>>> Agreed, or at least boost it up a good bit more.
>
>> the question really is how much "a bit more" is - right now the limit is
>> 100000 characters which limits us to ~70KB of attachments (around the
>> size of the Hot-standby patch if bzip2 compressed).
>
>> The SE-Postgres patch for example is ~650KB uncompressed - if we want to
>> cope with uncompressed patches that large we would have to increase
>> the current limit by a factor of 10 at least.
>
> I feel no need to encourage people to send huge patches uncompressed ;-)
>
> gzip normally gets at least 3x or 4x on large diffs. So a limit around
> 250K ought to be enough.
Given this, I've increased the size to 1Mb. Let's see how that works out.
//Magnus
