X-Original-To: pgsql-patches-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D238C9F9F73 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:19:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 53470-04 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:19:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37AFA9F95E3 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:19:20 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6IIJ1C9005843; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:19:01 -0400 (EDT) To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Andrew Dunstan cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne , Joe Conway , Bernd Helmle , Peter Eisentraut , "Patches (PostgreSQL)" , Susanne Ebrecht Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features? In-reply-to: <44BCF1D4.3010807@dunslane.net> References: <44B69778.5050104@dunslane.net> <50461.84.63.113.55.1152832991.squirrel@pezone.net> <44B7ADFC.90205@dunslane.net> <44BC0432.3040509@joeconway.com> <44BC661F.80609@joeconway.com> <44BCD06C.3060409@calorieking.com> <44BCF1D4.3010807@dunslane.net> Comments: In-reply-to Andrew Dunstan message dated "Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:36:04 -0400" Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:19:01 -0400 Message-ID: <5842.1153246741@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200607/139 X-Sequence-Number: 20293 >> If the use case is people running MySQL dumps, then there will be >> millions of values-targetlists in MySQL dumps. I did some experimentation just now, and could not get mysql to accept a command longer than about 1 million bytes. It complains about Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes which seems a bit odd because max_allowed_packet is allegedly set to 16 million, but anyway I don't think people are going to be loading any million-row tables using single INSERT commands in mysql either. regards, tom lane