Re: INDEX_MAX_KEYS

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Copeland <greg(at)CopelandConsulting(dot)Net>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: INDEX_MAX_KEYS
Date: 2002-03-11 21:34:54
Message-ID: 200203112134.g2BLYss16831@candle.pha.pa.us
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Jan Wieck wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Greg Copeland wrote:
> >
> > Checking application/pgp-signature: FAILURE
> > -- Start of PGP signed section.
> > > I'm looking through the index code and just happened to notice that
> > > INDEX_MAX_KEYS is currently set to 16. It there a reason for this value
> > > to be at 16 or was it arbitrarily specified?
> >
> > Arbitrary, and there is discussion about increasing it.
>
> Wasn't it that this number had to be <= the maximum number of
> function args?

Yes, they are related. At least I think so. Anyway, the parameter that
needs increasing is max function args. I got mixed up there.

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