Re: Recovery Test Framework

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Recovery Test Framework
Date: 2009-01-13 01:12:46
Message-ID: 15178.1231809166@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
>>> 1. Remove the messages size limits on -hackers. They serve no useful
>>> purpose, and they interfere with our development process.
>>
>> Agreed, or at least boost it up a good bit more.

> the question really is how much "a bit more" is - right now the limit is
> 100000 characters which limits us to ~70KB of attachments (around the
> size of the Hot-standby patch if bzip2 compressed).

> The SE-Postgres patch for example is ~650KB uncompressed - if we want to
> cope with uncompressed patches that large we would have to increase
> the current limit by a factor of 10 at least.

I feel no need to encourage people to send huge patches uncompressed ;-)

gzip normally gets at least 3x or 4x on large diffs. So a limit around
250K ought to be enough.

regards, tom lane

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