Re: [Solved] SQL Server to PostgreSQL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Ian Turner <vectro(at)pipeline(dot)com>, Martin Christensen <knightsofspamalot-factotum(at)mail1(dot)stofanet(dot)dk>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [Solved] SQL Server to PostgreSQL
Date: 2000-10-15 04:21:42
Message-ID: 4214.971583702@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> Now that you mention it, though, doesn't TOAST break heapam's assumption
>>>> that char(n) is fixed length? Seems like we'd better either remove that
>>>> assumption or mark char(n) nontoastable. Any opinions which is better?

> I don't see any more communication on this in my mail archives.

Nothing's been done yet, but we *must* fix this before 7.1.

I'm wondering whether it's worthwhile keeping the VARLENA_FIXED_SIZE
macro at all. Is there any potential use for it?

regards, tom lane

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