On 2015-05-13 18:16, Christopher Browne wrote: > On 13 May 2015 at 17:55, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > > "Aaron W. Swenson" <titanof...@gentoo.org> writes: > > > Trying to build HEAD and ran into this issue building the docs: > > > openjade:logicaldecoding.sgml:575:62:Q: length of name token must > > > not exceed NAMELEN (44) > > > openjade:replication-origins.sgml:87:67:Q: length of name token must > > > not exceed NAMELEN (44) > > > > Hmm ... that's odd. I don't see any such failure here, and the buildfarm > > members that build the docs aren't complaining either. What version of > > openjade are you using exactly? > > > > > So, I've attached a patch that'll fix it. > > > > I have no particular objection to the patch as stated, but I'm just > > wondering if this is the tip of a tool compatibility iceberg we were > > not previously aware of. > > > > I recall us hitting this with Slony documentation. The NAMELEN limit > lay in the SGML/DocBook configuration that was configured at the > distribution level, so that it differed (crucially) betwen Debian and > Red Hat. > > Red Hat used to have a lower name length limit, and while overriding > it was technically possible, it required modifying configuration that > the distribution thought was owned by one of the SGML packages, > and hence the modification seemed pretty inadvisable. > > I thought that this restriction was alleviated years ago, so I'm a bit > surprised to see this come up in 2015. (Or perhaps Gentoo hasn't > yet opened up some limits??? :-) )
The restriction is alleviated (patched) by some distributions, and Gentoo isn't among those. It has been almost 4 years (the most recent Google has found) since the last time this happened with PostgreSQL's docs. http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/banlktiktw6srdygvfjrb4q+7dvwoqcc...@mail.gmail.com
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