From 6d08b6a7b864eefd8614d6e7d7f6865515955986 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 17:53:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove 4096 string limited key on block size

---
 src/backend/parser/gram.y             | 11 +++--------
 src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c       | 18 +++++++++---------
 src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.y |  5 ++---
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/parser/gram.y b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
index 32d1e22beb..e6bdd6f367 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/gram.y
+++ b/src/backend/parser/gram.y
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/gram.y,v 2.77 1999/05/17 01:01:06 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/gram.y,v 2.78 1999/05/19 17:53:10 momjian Exp $
  *
  * HISTORY
  *	  AUTHOR			DATE			MAJOR EVENT
@@ -3403,13 +3403,8 @@ Character:  character '(' Iconst ')'
 
 					if ($3 < 1)
 						elog(ERROR,"length for '%s' type must be at least 1",$1);
-					else if ($3 > 4096)
-						/* we can store a char() of length up to the size
-						 * of a page (8KB) - page headers and friends but
-						 * just to be safe here...	- ay 6/95
-						 * XXX note this hardcoded limit - thomas 1997-07-13
-						 */
-						elog(ERROR,"length for type '%s' cannot exceed 4096",$1);
+					else if ($3 > BLCKSZ - 128)
+						elog(ERROR,"length for type '%s' cannot exceed %d",$1, BLCKSZ-128);
 
 					/* we actually implement this sort of like a varlen, so
 					 * the first 4 bytes is the length. (the difference
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c
index 0aa8133b13..1233955c4f 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c,v 1.44 1999/05/03 19:10:02 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c,v 1.45 1999/05/19 17:53:11 momjian Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ bpcharin(char *s, int dummy, int32 atttypmod)
 	else
 		len = atttypmod - VARHDRSZ;
 
-	if (len > 4096)
-		elog(ERROR, "bpcharin: length of char() must be less than 4096");
+	if (len > BLCKSZ - 128)
+		elog(ERROR, "bpcharin: length of char() must be less than %d",BLCKSZ-128);
 
 	result = (char *) palloc(atttypmod);
 	VARSIZE(result) = atttypmod;
@@ -151,8 +151,8 @@ bpchar(char *s, int32 len)
 
 	rlen = len - VARHDRSZ;
 
-	if (rlen > 4096)
-		elog(ERROR, "bpchar: length of char() must be less than 4096");
+	if (rlen > BLCKSZ - 128)
+		elog(ERROR, "bpchar: length of char() must be less than %d",BLCKSZ-128);
 
 #ifdef STRINGDEBUG
 	printf("bpchar- convert string length %d (%d) ->%d (%d)\n",
@@ -330,8 +330,8 @@ varcharin(char *s, int dummy, int32 atttypmod)
 	if (atttypmod != -1 && len > atttypmod)
 		len = atttypmod;		/* clip the string at max length */
 
-	if (len > 4096)
-		elog(ERROR, "varcharin: length of char() must be less than 4096");
+	if (len > BLCKSZ - 128)
+		elog(ERROR, "varcharin: length of char() must be less than %d",BLCKSZ-128);
 
 	result = (char *) palloc(len);
 	VARSIZE(result) = len;
@@ -398,8 +398,8 @@ varchar(char *s, int32 slen)
 	len = slen - VARHDRSZ;
 #endif
 
-	if (len > 4096)
-		elog(ERROR, "varchar: length of varchar() must be less than 4096");
+	if (len > BLCKSZ-128)
+		elog(ERROR, "varchar: length of varchar() must be less than BLCKSZ-128");
 
 	result = (char *) palloc(slen);
 	VARSIZE(result) = slen;
diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.y b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.y
index c96a9447cc..277f42eb17 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.y
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.y
@@ -3355,13 +3355,12 @@ Character:  character '(' Iconst ')'
 						sprintf(errortext, "length for '%s' type must be at least 1",$1);
 						yyerror(errortext);
 					}
-					else if (atol($3) > 4096) {
+					else if (atol($3) > BLCKSZ - 128) {
 						/* we can store a char() of length up to the size
 						 * of a page (8KB) - page headers and friends but
 						 * just to be safe here...	- ay 6/95
-						 * XXX note this hardcoded limit - thomas 1997-07-13
 						 */
-						sprintf(errortext, "length for type '%s' cannot exceed 4096",$1);
+						sprintf(errortext, "length for type '%s' cannot exceed %d",BLCKSZ-128);
 						yyerror(errortext);
 					}
 
-- 
2.11.0