From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Permit dump/reload of not-too-large >1GB tuples
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 11:51:47 -0300
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> > > Permit dump/reload of not-too-large >1GB tuples
> >
> > I apologize for not having paid close enough attention earlier, but:
> > this patch is absolutely unacceptable for the back branches and MUST
> > be reverted there. Adding another field to StringInfoData is an ABI
> > change that will certainly break large numbers of extensions. We
> > can't expect those to get recompiled for minor releases.
>
> Oh, I see the problem now -- it can (and frequently is) stack allocated,
> not just palloc'ed using the StringInfo api, and changing the size
> breaks that. Rats. I'll revert tomorrow.
Done.
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