Re: [HACKERS] new patches for 6.5.0

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> Hi,
>
> here are some patches for 6.5.0 which I already submitted but have never
> been applied. The patches are in the .tar.gz attachment at the end:
>
> varchar-array.patch this patch adds support for arrays of bpchar() and
> varchar(), which where always missing from postgres.
>
> These datatypes can be used to replace the _char4,
> _char8, etc., which were dropped some time ago.
>
> block-size.patch this patch fixes many errors in the parser and other
> program which happen with very large query statements
> (> 8K) when using a page size larger than 8192.
>
> This patch is needed if you want to submit queries
> larger than 8K. Postgres supports tuples up to 32K
> but you can't insert them because you can't submit
> queries larger than 8K. My patch fixes this problem.
>
> The patch also replaces all the occurrences of `8192'
> and `1<<13' in the sources with the proper constants
> defined in include files. You should now never find
> 8192 hardwired in C code, just to make code clearer.

Applied. This was still in my mailbox, waiting. Sorry.

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