Re: Allow the identifier length to be increased via a configure option

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Dhanaraj M wrote:
>> I am sending the patch for the following TODO item:
>> Allow the identifier length to be increased via a configure option

> You should use pg_config.h, not mangle postgres_ext.h like that. Or
> maybe generate postgres_ext.h from an hypotetical postgres_ext.h.in (but
> I wouldn't do that, really).

I'm wondering how this got into the TODO list. It seems rather
pointless, and likely to create client compatibility problems (if not,
why is NAMEDATALEN exported at all?)

A bigger problem with the proposed patch is that it makes it look like
you can set the identifier length to any random number; the restrictions
mentioned in postgres_ext.h aren't enforced or even displayed to the
user of configure.

regards, tom lane