
Here is an email I sent to patches, minus the patch.  I am sending to
hackers for comments.

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> 
> The following patch adds --maxindfuncparams to configure to allow you to
> more easily set the maximum number of function parameters and columns
> in an index.  (Can someone come up with a better name?)
> 
> The patch also removes --def_maxbackends, which Tom reported a few weeks
> ago he wanted to remove.  Can people review this?  To test it, you have
> to run autoconf.
> 
> Are we staying at 16 as the default?   I personally think we can
> increase it to 32 with little penalty, and that we should increase
> NAMEDATALEN to 64.

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Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:18:52 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: [SQL] 16 parameter limit