Re: change NAMEDATALEN to 64

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
Cc: Kathy Zhu <Kathy(dot)Zhu(at)Sun(dot)COM>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: change NAMEDATALEN to 64
Date: 2003-07-15 04:21:11
Message-ID: 20225.1058242871@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:10:15PM -0600, Kathy Zhu wrote:
>> **** The question is, is it ok to fail this regression test since I do change
>> the NAMEDATALEN ???

> AFAICS this is testing the ability to correctly truncate the identifier
> length to 31 chars, so yes, the test is supposed to fail.

Indeed; see the changes to that regression result made between 7.2 and 7.3:
http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/test/regress/expected/name.out

Kathy, you might want to think about switching to a not-yet-obsolete
release ;-)

regards, tom lane

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