Re: Recovery Test Framework

Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
>>> 1.  Remove the messages size limits on -hackers.  They serve no useful
>>> purpose, and they interfere with our development process.
>> 
>> Agreed, or at least boost it up a good bit more.

> the question really is how much "a bit more" is - right now the limit is 
>    100000 characters which limits us to ~70KB of attachments (around the 
> size of the Hot-standby patch if bzip2 compressed).

> The SE-Postgres patch for example is ~650KB uncompressed - if we want to 
>   cope with uncompressed patches that large we would have to increase 
> the current limit by a factor of 10 at least.

I feel no need to encourage people to send huge patches uncompressed ;-)

gzip normally gets at least 3x or 4x on large diffs.  So a limit around
250K ought to be enough.
        regards, tom lane