On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 21:35 +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> writes: > >> Two things to fix this, and several other problems: > > > >> 1. Remove the messages size limits on -hackers. They serve no useful > >> purpose, and they interfere with our development process. > > > > Agreed, or at least boost it up a good bit more. > > the question really is how much "a bit more" is - right now the limit is > 100000 characters which limits us to ~70KB of attachments (around the > size of the Hot-standby patch if bzip2 compressed). > > The SE-Postgres patch for example is ~650KB uncompressed - if we want to > cope with uncompressed patches that large we would have to increase > the current limit by a factor of 10 at least. > I wonder if there are people on the list that might not want to receive > mails that large(like users with mobile phones)?
Smart mobile phones are not going to pull down the attachment unless the user explicitly says, pull down attachment. However I can say I would be fairly annoyed if everytime I checked hackers I was pulling down 5 megs in various patches. Joshua D. Drake > > > Stefan > -- PostgreSQL Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
