Re: NAMEDATALEN change

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Gregory Williamson" <Gregory(dot)Williamson(at)digitalglobe(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: NAMEDATALEN change
Date: 2007-08-15 02:00:01
Message-ID: 20285.1187143201@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Gregory Williamson" <Gregory(dot)Williamson(at)digitalglobe(dot)com> writes:
> a) Do I need to dump the database and reload ?

Yes. (Any reasonably modern backend will in fact refuse to start
if pg_control shows an incompatible nameDataLen.) This is not a
lot different from changing --enable-integer-datetimes, for instance.

regards, tom lane

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