Tom Lane wrote:
It's really a
performance issue: do you want to pay the penalty associated with
reassembling messages that exceed the loopback MTU [...]
BTW, the loopback MTU here is quite large:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig lo | grep MTU
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
Linux flood 2.6.8.1-flood #1 Wed Sep 29 21:58:09 NZST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
so at least on Linux 2.6 it seems like the risk of fragmentation is minimal.
-O
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