On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Do you think it's worth worrying about the reduction in the number of
>>> possible SI message types?
>>
>> IIRC the number of message types is the number of catalog caches plus
>> half a dozen or so. We're a long way from exhausting even a 1-byte
>> ID field; and we could play more games if we had to, since there would
>> be a padding byte free in the message types that refer to a catalog
>> cache. IOW, 1-byte id doesn't bother me.
>
> OK.
Here's an updated patch, with the invalidation changes merged in and
hopefully-suitable adjustments elsewhere.
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