Re: Save a few bytes in pg_attribute

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Save a few bytes in pg_attribute
Date: 2023-03-20 23:44:57
Message-ID: 20230320234457.s2magjpvmeqg6nqe@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2023-03-20 10:37:36 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I agree that attinhcount could be narrowed, but I have some concern
> about attstattarget. IIRC, the limit on attstattarget was once 1000
> and then we raised it to 10000. Is it inconceivable that we might
> want to raise it to 100000 someday?

Hard to believe that'd happen in a minor version - and I don't think there'd
an issue with widening it again in a major version?

I doubt we'll ever go to 100k without a major redesign of stats storage/access
- the size of the stats datums would make that pretty impractical right now.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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