You can dump and reload. It is saying all databases under the same
postmaster have to have the same NAMEDATALEN.
> is it safe to change NAMEDATALEN, dump an existing database, recompile,
> and then restore the database?
>
> in src/include/postgres_ext.h, it mentions that "... databases with
> different NAMEDATALEN's cannot interoperate!", and i was wondering if
> included when altering NAMEDATALEN for a database that already has data
> even if performing a pg_dump on it.
>
> -tfo
>
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