chris(at)creatop(dot)com(dot)au writes:
> Due to the 32 character limit on column/table names, we needed to recompile PostgreSQL from the source with updated settings. It compiles fine, but on running initdb, we get the following output:
Without bothering to examine the details, I'll bet you didn't do a full
recompile. You need "make clean" then "make all" after changing
settings such as this one.
> However ideally we'd like to be able to go beyond 64.
Note that the reason 7.3 defaults to 64, and not more, is that we
measured noticeable performance degradation at 128 and beyond.
regards, tom lane