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/*------------------------------------------------------------------------
* PostgreSQL manual configuration settings
*
* This file contains various configuration symbols and limits. In
* all cases, changing them is only useful in very rare situations or
* for developers. If you edit any of these, be sure to do a *full*
* rebuild (and an initdb if noted).
*
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/pg_config_manual.h,v 1.27 2007/06/08 18:23:53 tgl Exp $
*------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
/*
* Size of a disk block --- this also limits the size of a tuple. You
* can set it bigger if you need bigger tuples (although TOAST should
* reduce the need to have large tuples, since fields can be spread
* across multiple tuples).
*
* BLCKSZ must be a power of 2. The maximum possible value of BLCKSZ
* is currently 2^15 (32768). This is determined by the 15-bit widths
* of the lp_off and lp_len fields in ItemIdData (see
* include/storage/itemid.h).
*
* Changing BLCKSZ requires an initdb.
*/
#define BLCKSZ 32768
#if BLCKSZ < 1024
#error BLCKSZ must be >= 1024
#endif
/*
* RELSEG_SIZE is the maximum number of blocks allowed in one disk
* file. Thus, the maximum size of a single file is RELSEG_SIZE *
* BLCKSZ; relations bigger than that are divided into multiple files.
*
* RELSEG_SIZE * BLCKSZ must be less than your OS' limit on file size.
* This is often 2 GB or 4GB in a 32-bit operating system, unless you
* have large file support enabled. By default, we make the limit 1
* GB to avoid any possible integer-overflow problems within the OS.
* A limit smaller than necessary only means we divide a large
* relation into more chunks than necessary, so it seems best to err
* in the direction of a small limit. (Besides, a power-of-2 value
* saves a few cycles in md.c.)
*
* Changing RELSEG_SIZE requires an initdb.
*/
#define RELSEG_SIZE (0x40000000 / BLCKSZ)
/*
* Size of a WAL file block. This need have no particular relation to BLCKSZ.
* XLOG_BLCKSZ must be a power of 2, and if your system supports O_DIRECT I/O,
* XLOG_BLCKSZ must be a multiple of the alignment requirement for direct-I/O
* buffers, else direct I/O may fail.
*
* Changing XLOG_BLCKSZ requires an initdb.
*/
#define XLOG_BLCKSZ 32768
/*
* XLOG_SEG_SIZE is the size of a single WAL file. This must be a power of 2
* and larger than XLOG_BLCKSZ (preferably, a great deal larger than
* XLOG_BLCKSZ).
*
* Changing XLOG_SEG_SIZE requires an initdb.
*/
#define XLOG_SEG_SIZE (64*1024*1024)
/*
* Maximum length for identifiers (e.g. table names, column names,
* function names). Names actually are limited to one less byte than this,
* because the length must include a trailing zero byte.
*
* Changing this requires an initdb.
*/
#define NAMEDATALEN 64
/*
* Maximum number of arguments to a function.
*
* The minimum value is 8 (index cost estimation uses 8-argument functions).
* The maximum possible value is around 600 (limited by index tuple size in
* pg_proc's index; BLCKSZ larger than 8K would allow more). Values larger
* than needed will waste memory and processing time, but do not directly
* cost disk space.
*
* Changing this does not require an initdb, but it does require a full
* backend recompile (including any user-defined C functions).
*/
#define FUNC_MAX_ARGS 100
/*
* Maximum number of columns in an index. There is little point in making
* this anything but a multiple of 32, because the main cost is associated
* with index tuple header size (see access/itup.h).
*
* Changing this requires an initdb.
*/
#define INDEX_MAX_KEYS 32
/*
* Number of spare LWLocks to allocate for user-defined add-on code.
*/
#define NUM_USER_DEFINED_LWLOCKS 4
/*
* Define this to make libpgtcl's "pg_result -assign" command process
* C-style backslash sequences in returned tuple data and convert
* PostgreSQL array values into Tcl lists. CAUTION: This conversion
* is *wrong* unless you install the routines in
* contrib/string/string_io to make the server produce C-style
* backslash sequences in the first place.
*/
/* #define TCL_ARRAYS */
/*
* Define this if you want psql to _always_ ask for a username and a
* password for password authentication.
*/
/* #define PSQL_ALWAYS_GET_PASSWORDS */
/*
* Define this if you want to allow the lo_import and lo_export SQL
* functions to be executed by ordinary users. By default these
* functions are only available to the Postgres superuser. CAUTION:
* These functions are SECURITY HOLES since they can read and write
* any file that the PostgreSQL server has permission to access. If
* you turn this on, don't say we didn't warn you.
*/
/* #define ALLOW_DANGEROUS_LO_FUNCTIONS */
/*
* MAXPGPATH: standard size of a pathname buffer in PostgreSQL (hence,
* maximum usable pathname length is one less).
*
* We'd use a standard system header symbol for this, if there weren't
* so many to choose from: MAXPATHLEN, MAX_PATH, PATH_MAX are all
* defined by different "standards", and often have different values
* on the same platform! So we just punt and use a reasonably
* generous setting here.
*/
#define MAXPGPATH 1024
/*
* PG_SOMAXCONN: maximum accept-queue length limit passed to
* listen(2). You'd think we should use SOMAXCONN from
* <sys/socket.h>, but on many systems that symbol is much smaller
* than the kernel's actual limit. In any case, this symbol need be
* twiddled only if you have a kernel that refuses large limit values,
* rather than silently reducing the value to what it can handle
* (which is what most if not all Unixen do).
*/
#define PG_SOMAXCONN 10000
/*
* You can try changing this if you have a machine with bytes of
* another size, but no guarantee...
*/
#define BITS_PER_BYTE 8
/*
* Preferred alignment for disk I/O buffers. On some CPUs, copies between
* user space and kernel space are significantly faster if the user buffer
* is aligned on a larger-than-MAXALIGN boundary. Ideally this should be
* a platform-dependent value, but for now we just hard-wire it.
*/
#define ALIGNOF_BUFFER 64
/*
* Disable UNIX sockets for certain operating systems.
*/
#if defined(WIN32)
#undef HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS
#endif
/*
* Define this if your operating system supports link()
*/
#if !defined(WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)
#define HAVE_WORKING_LINK 1
#endif
/*
* This is the default directory in which AF_UNIX socket files are
* placed. Caution: changing this risks breaking your existing client
* applications, which are likely to continue to look in the old
* directory. But if you just hate the idea of sockets in /tmp,
* here's where to twiddle it. You can also override this at runtime
* with the postmaster's -k switch.
*/
#define DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR "/tmp"
/*
* The random() function is expected to yield values between 0 and
* MAX_RANDOM_VALUE. Currently, all known implementations yield
* 0..2^31-1, so we just hardwire this constant. We could do a
* configure test if it proves to be necessary. CAUTION: Think not to
* replace this with RAND_MAX. RAND_MAX defines the maximum value of
* the older rand() function, which is often different from --- and
* considerably inferior to --- random().
*/
#define MAX_RANDOM_VALUE (0x7FFFFFFF)
/*
*------------------------------------------------------------------------
* The following symbols are for enabling debugging code, not for
* controlling user-visible features or resource limits.
*------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
/*
* Define this to cause pfree()'d memory to be cleared immediately, to
* facilitate catching bugs that refer to already-freed values.
* Right now, this gets defined automatically if --enable-cassert.
*/
#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
#define CLOBBER_FREED_MEMORY
#endif
/*
* Define this to check memory allocation errors (scribbling on more
* bytes than were allocated). Right now, this gets defined
* automatically if --enable-cassert.
*/
#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
#define MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING
#endif
/*
* Define this to cause palloc()'d memory to be filled with random data, to
* facilitate catching code that depends on the contents of uninitialized
* memory. Caution: this is horrendously expensive.
*/
/* #define RANDOMIZE_ALLOCATED_MEMORY */
/*
* Define this to force all parse and plan trees to be passed through
* copyObject(), to facilitate catching errors and omissions in
* copyObject().
*/
/* #define COPY_PARSE_PLAN_TREES */
/*
* Enable debugging print statements for lock-related operations.
*/
/* #define LOCK_DEBUG */
/*
* Enable debugging print statements for WAL-related operations; see
* also the wal_debug GUC var.
*/
/* #define WAL_DEBUG */
/*
* Enable injecting faults.
*/
#define FAULT_INJECTOR 1
/*
* Enable tracing of resource consumption during sort operations;
* see also the trace_sort GUC var. For 8.1 this is enabled by default.
*/
#define TRACE_SORT 1
/*
* Enable tracing of syncscan operations (see also the trace_syncscan GUC var).
*/
/* #define TRACE_SYNCSCAN */
/*
* Other debug #defines (documentation, anyone?)
*/
/* #define HEAPDEBUGALL */
/* #define ACLDEBUG */
/* #define RTDEBUG */
/* #define WATCH_VISIBILITY_IN_ACTION */
/*
* This define lets the system header files know we are interested in features up to Posix 6
*
* Solaris is strange... If you want >= 600, you MUST use a C99 compiler, if < 600, you MUST
* use a C89 compiler. So, set it to 600 if we are C99, and set it to 500 if we aren't.
*/
#if !defined(_XOPEN_SOURCE) || _XOPEN_SOURCE<600
#undef _XOPEN_SOURCE
#if !defined(__sun__) || (defined(__STDC_VERSION__) && __STDC_VERSION__ >= 199901L)
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600
#else
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500
#endif
#endif
/* Define to activate features from IEEE Stds 1003.1-2001 */
#if !defined(_POSIX_C_SOURCE) || _POSIX_C_SOURCE<200112L
#undef _POSIX_C_SOURCE
/* Define to activate features from IEEE Stds 1003.1-2001 */
#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L
#endif
/*
* Solaris likes this to be defined if we define _XOPEN_SOURCE, otherwise
* they turn off anything they think is an extension to XOPEN
*/
#ifndef __EXTENSIONS__
#define __EXTENSIONS__ 1
#endif
/*
* OSX (darwin) wants this if XOPEN_SOURCE is defined
*/
#ifndef _DARWIN_C_SOURCE
#define _DARWIN_C_SOURCE 1
#endif
/*
* AIX wants this if XOPEN_SOURCE is defined
*/
#ifdef _AIX
#define _ALL_SOURCE
#endif