Re: namedatalen part 2 (cont'd)

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org>, Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: namedatalen part 2 (cont'd)
Date: 2002-04-24 13:57:29
Message-ID: 200204241357.g3ODvTY08250@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org> writes:
> > ...Based on that data, I'd vote against making any changes to NAMEDATALEN.
>
> It looked to me like the cost for going to NAMEDATALEN = 64 would be
> reasonable. Based on these numbers I'd have a problem with 128 or more.
>
> But as you observe, pgbench numbers are not very repeatable. It'd be
> nice to have some similar experiments with another benchmark before
> making a decision.

Yes, 64 looked like the appropriate value too. Actually, I was
surprised to see as much of a slowdown as we did.

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