Re: Window Functions: patch for CommitFest:Nov.

2008/11/1 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> "Hitoshi Harada" <umi.tanuki@gmail.com> writes:
>>> 2008/11/1 David Fetter <david@fetter.org>:
>>> I've ever sent a patch over 100k and failed. Actually how much is the
>>> limitation of the patch size? And if the patch is too huge, is it
>>> better to split the patch than send an external link?
>
> I'd suggest splitting the patch into sections if necessary.  A patch
> that's over 100K zipped is likely to be unmanageable from a reviewing
> standpoint anyhow --- it would be better to think about how to factor
> it into separate patches ...

OK, but a half of my patch is based on pg_proc.h so reviewing is not
so complexing as its size.

> But in any case, Alvaro is correct to complain about external links.
> We want the patch to be in the list archives.

Agree. So I suppose the limitation can be bigger up to 500k or so.
Nowadays, network and mail clients wouldn't be annoyed with that size.
But I will follow the current rule. Next time, I'll try split patch.



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Hitoshi Harada