> > This doesn't seem like a reason not to allow a higher limit, like a > megabyte or so, but I'm not sure that pushing it to the moon would be > wise. >
Just to get a mental handle on the size of queries we might be allowing before truncation, I did some very rough arithmetic on what well known texts might fit in a megabyte. By my calculations you could fit about four Animal Farms or one Madame Bovary in about a megabyte. So I think that seems like more than enough :-). (My mind kinda explores at the thought of debugging a query as long as Animal Farm.)
I've seen some pretty big IN-lists and VALUES lists. They aren't so hard to debug once you tune out iterations 3 through N-3 of the list members. Unless they are hard to debug for other reasons. In these cases, it would be helpful, if not just allowing bigger texts in general, to instead "truncate" from the middle, preserving both the beginning and the end of the query text.