Re: Fix token exceeding NAMELEN

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Aaron W(dot) Swenson" <titanofold(at)gentoo(dot)org>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Mailing Lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fix token exceeding NAMELEN
Date: 2015-05-15 02:35:49
Message-ID: 1150.1431657349@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold(at)gentoo(dot)org> writes:
> On 2015-05-13 18:16, Christopher Browne wrote:
>> I thought that this restriction was alleviated years ago, so I'm a bit
>> surprised to see this come up in 2015. (Or perhaps Gentoo hasn't
>> yet opened up some limits??? :-) )

> The restriction is alleviated (patched) by some distributions, and
> Gentoo isn't among those.

> It has been almost 4 years (the most recent Google has found) since the
> last time this happened with PostgreSQL's docs.
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/BANLkTiktW6SRDygVfJRB4q+7dvWoQCC1Yg@mail.gmail.com

Ah, so we have hit it before and forgotten. Might as well stick to the
previous decision then. Patch applied, thanks!

regards, tom lane

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