Re: [PATCH] Extend the length of BackgroundWorker.bgw_library_name

From: Yurii Rashkovskii <yrashk(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extend the length of BackgroundWorker.bgw_library_name
Date: 2023-07-02 23:37:52
Message-ID: CA+RLCQyBKNsqmumxMkFx_Fvr6bGKnmY8sxywAnxmyqPxix7tsg@mail.gmail.com
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Hi Nathan,

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 2:39 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

>
> In v4, I've introduced a new BGW_LIBLEN macro and set it to the default
> value of MAXPGPATH (1024). This way, the value can live in bgworker.h like
> the other BGW_* macros do. Plus, this should make the assertion that
> checks for backward compatibility unnecessary. Since bgw_library_name is
> essentially a path, I can see the argument that we should just set
> BGW_LIBLEN to MAXPGPATH directly. I'm curious what folks think about this.
>

Thank you for revising the patch. While this is relatively minor, I think
it should be set to MAXPGPATH directly to clarify their relationship.

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Y.

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