On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > However, in the parser I use IDENT to get the parameter names and already > > in the lexer the IDENT tokens are truncated to length NAMEDATALEN. > > Right. What's the problem?
It's strange to allow identifiers to be of any length in the system table when there is no way to create it using normal syntax. The parser accepts this kind of input: CREATE FUNCTION foo (x int) RETURNS int AS ... and the identifier x (as all identifiers) can not be too long. Still, one can create the function and update the system table by hand to change x to a longer name. Doesn't that sound ugly to you? It's not a technical problem, but a matter of style. Everything works as it is now, but works is not always enough. -- /Dennis ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
