Re: renaming contrib. (was multi-platform, multi-locale regression tests)

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: renaming contrib. (was multi-platform, multi-locale regression tests)
Date: 2010-11-11 13:28:53
Message-ID: 4CDBEF95.4090803@dunslane.net
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On 11/10/2010 07:51 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> (And no, don't you dare breathe a word about git making that
> all automagically better. I have enough back-patching experience with
> git by now to be unimpressed; in fact, I notice that its rename-tracking
> feature falls over entirely when trying to back-patch further than 8.3.
> Apparently there's some hardwired limit on the number of files it can
> cope with.)
>> That's very sad. Did you file a bug?
> It's intentional behavior. It gives up when there are too many
> differences to avoid being slow.

We should adopt that philosophy. I suggest we limit all tables in future
to 1m rows in the interests of speed.

cheers

andrew

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