Re: renaming contrib. (was multi-platform, multi-locale regression tests) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: renaming contrib. (was multi-platform, multi-locale regression tests)
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Msg-id 4CDBEF95.4090803@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: renaming contrib. (was multi-platform, multi-locale regression tests)  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On 11/10/2010 07:51 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>   (And no, don't you dare breathe a word about git making that
> all automagically better.  I have enough back-patching experience with
> git by now to be unimpressed; in fact, I notice that its rename-tracking
> feature falls over entirely when trying to back-patch further than 8.3.
> Apparently there's some hardwired limit on the number of files it can
> cope with.)
>> That's very sad. Did you file a bug?
> It's intentional behavior.  It gives up when there are too many
> differences to avoid being slow.

We should adopt that philosophy. I suggest we limit all tables in future 
to 1m rows in the interests of speed.

cheers

andrew


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