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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alessandro Baretta <a.baretta@studio.baretta.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: NAMEDATALEN and performance
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:50:45 -0500
Message-ID: <19764.1164815445@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <456D6FAB.4030400@studio.baretta.com>
References: <456D6FAB.4030400@studio.baretta.com>

Alessandro Baretta <a.baretta@studio.baretta.com> writes:
> I am considering the possibility of rebuilding the server with
> NAMEDATALEN equal to 256. I have seen an interesting thread [1] about
> the performance impact of raising NAMEDATALEN, but it did not seem
> conclusive.

More to the point, tests done on 7.2-era code shouldn't be assumed to be
relevant to modern PG releases.  I think you'll need to do your own
benchmarking if you want to find out the costs of doing this.

			regards, tom lane



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