Re: [HACKERS] Planning final assault on query length limits

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Brook Milligan <brook(at)biology(dot)nmsu(dot)edu>
Cc: maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, meskes(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Planning final assault on query length limits
Date: 1999-10-20 18:47:46
Message-ID: 13724.940445266@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Brook Milligan <brook(at)biology(dot)nmsu(dot)edu> writes:
>> Jan, does this mean that we can also lose the "rewrite string too big"
>> problem with rules?

> No. We have to have long tuples.

> Darn. Oh well, I guess this is a major step in that direction.

I'm hoping that once this is done, someone who knows the guts of the
storage managers better than I will feel motivated to work on letting
stored tuples cross block boundaries. (Paging Vadim...) That seems
to be the last piece of the puzzle.

regards, tom lane

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