Re: Fix token exceeding NAMELEN

On 2015-05-13 18:16, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On 13 May 2015 at 17:55, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > "Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold(at)gentoo(dot)org> writes:
> > > Trying to build HEAD and ran into this issue building the docs:
> > > openjade:logicaldecoding.sgml:575:62:Q: length of name token must
> > > not exceed NAMELEN (44)
> > > openjade:replication-origins.sgml:87:67:Q: length of name token must
> > > not exceed NAMELEN (44)
> >
> > Hmm ... that's odd. I don't see any such failure here, and the buildfarm
> > members that build the docs aren't complaining either. What version of
> > openjade are you using exactly?
> >
> > > So, I've attached a patch that'll fix it.
> >
> > I have no particular objection to the patch as stated, but I'm just
> > wondering if this is the tip of a tool compatibility iceberg we were
> > not previously aware of.
> >
>
> I recall us hitting this with Slony documentation. The NAMELEN limit
> lay in the SGML/DocBook configuration that was configured at the
> distribution level, so that it differed (crucially) betwen Debian and
> Red Hat.
>
> Red Hat used to have a lower name length limit, and while overriding
> it was technically possible, it required modifying configuration that
> the distribution thought was owned by one of the SGML packages,
> and hence the modification seemed pretty inadvisable.
>
> 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.

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