From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane) |
Cc: | hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: [DOCS] Re: FE/BE protocol revision patch |
Date: | 1998-05-20 16:21:26 |
Message-ID: | 199805201621.MAA16117@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Zero overhead for types that don't use it is meaningless, because the
> > varlena length is 4 bytes, while current atttypmod is only two. Second,
> > I don't see how a varlena makes atttypmod less type-specific.
>
> Well, the issue is making sure that it will be adequate for future
> datatypes that we can't foresee.
>
> I can see that a variable-size atttypmod might be a tad painful to
> support. If you don't want to go that far, a reasonable compromise
> would be to make it int4 instead of int2. int2 is already uncomfortably
> tight for the numeric/decimal datatypes, which we surely will want to
> support soon (at least I do ;-)). int4 should give a little breathing
> room for datatypes that need to encode more than one subfield into
> atttypmod.
Comments? I am willing to change it.
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