2012/11/21 Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>:
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> Gavin Flower asks:
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>> Would it be appropriate to make it a WARNING in 9.2.2, then
>> increase the length in 9.3?
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> No: revisions are reserved for bug fixes. This would be more of
> a behavior fix and as such would go into a major version.
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> Gavan Schneider wrote:
>> (Wild speculation) There may be a "sweet spot" using even shorter
>> identifiers than is the case now, with full disambiguation, which
>> might improve overall performance.
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> I really don't think the length is really a bottleneck, but others
> can correct me if it is.
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> Tom Lane wrote:
>> There's some possible value in having a non-default option to throw
>> error for overlength names, but TBH I fear that it won't buy all that
>> much, because people won't think to turn it on when testing.
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>> Given the historical volume of complaints (to wit, none up to now),
>> I can't get very excited about changing the behavior here. I think
>> we're more likely to annoy users than accomplish anything useful.
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> Well, as with many other things, a lack of complaints does not indicate
> there is no problem. I've certainly seen this problem in the wild before,
> but have not bothered to file an official bug report or anything. Perhaps
> my bad, but the problem is out there. How would you feel about switching
> from NOTICE to WARNING, Tom? That seems to make a lot more sense as we
> are changing the user's input, which warrants more than a notice IMO.
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> Separately, what are the objections to raising the size limit to 128?
significantly larger catalog
Pavel
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