Re: Open 7.3 items

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org (Neil Conway)
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Open 7.3 items
Date: 2002-07-31 15:31:13
Message-ID: 28487.1028129473@sss.pgh.pa.us
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nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org (Neil Conway) writes:
>> FUNC_MAX_ARGS - disk/performance penalty for increase, 24, 32?

> Until someone takes the time to determine what the performance
> implications of this change will be, I don't think we should
> change this. Given that no one has done any testing, I'm not
> convinced that there's a lot of demand for this anyway.

The OpenACS guys really really wanted larger FUNC_MAX_ARGS (I think
they had some 25-arg functions). And we do see questions about
increasing the limit fairly often on the lists. I suspect we could
bump it up to 32 at little cost --- but someone should run some
experiments to verify.

regards, tom lane

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