> > > NAMEDATALEN - disk/performance penalty for increase, 64, 128? > > > FUNC_MAX_ARGS - disk/performance penalty for increase, 24, 32? > > > > At the moment I don't see a lot of solid evidence that increasing > > NAMEDATALEN has any performance penalty. Someone reported about > > a 10% slowdown on pgbench with NAMEDATALEN=128 ... but Neil Conway > > tried to reproduce the result, and got about a 10% *speedup*. > > Personally I think 10% is well within the noise spectrum for > > pgbench, and so it's difficult to claim that we have established > > any performance difference at all. I have not tried to measure > > FUNC_MAX_ARGS differences. > > Yes, we need someone to benchmark both the NAMEDATALEN and FUNC_MAX_ARGS > to prove we are not causing performance problems.
I think a valid NAMEDATALEN benchmark would need to use a lot of tables, like 1000-6000 with 10-100 columns each. The last bench was iirc done with pgbench that only uses a few tables. (The name type is fixed length) Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])