Re: Short varlena headers and arrays

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Short varlena headers and arrays
Date: 2007-02-19 15:30:36
Message-ID: 9763.1171899036@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> Once this is done it may be worth having arrays convert to short varlenas as
> well.

Elements of arrays are not subject to being toasted by themselves, so
I don't think you can make that work. At least not without breaking
wide swaths of code that works fine today.

regards, tom lane

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