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

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Dhanaraj M <Dhanaraj(dot)M(at)Sun(dot)COM>
Cc: PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Allow the identifier length to be increased via a configure option
Date: 2006-12-27 20:22:35
Message-ID: 20061227202235.GW23059@alvh.no-ip.org
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Dhanaraj M wrote:
> I am sending the patch for the following TODO item:
> Allow the identifier length to be increased via a configure option
>
> During the configuration time, the user can set the identifier length.
> ./configure.txt --with-identlen=128
>
> However, I am not clear about the requirement.
> Can somebody review and comment on this?

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).

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