On Thu, 02 May 2002 21:10:40 -0400, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
wrote:
>Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at> writes:
>> Is saving 4 bytes per tuple a "darn good reason"?
>
>[...] Now if
>we could get rid of 8 bytes in the header, I'd get excited ;-)
Tom,
what about WITHOUT OIDS? I know dropping the OID from some tables and
keeping it for others is not trivial, because t_oid is the _first_
field of HeapTupleHeaderData. I'm vaguely considering a few possible
implementations and will invest more work in a detailed proposal, if
it's wanted.
Servus
Manfred