Re: Better sanity checking for message length words - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Aleksander Alekseev
Subject Re: Better sanity checking for message length words
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Msg-id CAJ7c6TMZW4rCG1QJm5cF4ALv4595oV+OfytybgP5w7jmM1aKZQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Better sanity checking for message length words  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi Tom,

> ...
> Given the small number of complaints to date, I'm hesitant to
> back-patch this: if there's anybody out there with valid use for
> long messages that I didn't think should be long, this might break
> things for them.  But I think it'd be reasonable to sneak it into
> v14, since we've not started beta yet.
>
> Thoughts?

I'm having slight issues applying your patch to the `master` branch.
Is it the right target?

Regarding the idea, I think extra checks are a good thing and
definitely something that can be introduced in the next major version.
If we receive a complaint during beta-testing we can revert the patch
or maybe increase the limit for small messages.

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev



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