Stefan Kaltenbrunner <ste...@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> David Fetter <da...@fetter.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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