Re: column ordering, was Re: [PATCHES] Enums patch v2

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Russell Smith <mr-russ(at)pws(dot)com(dot)au>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: column ordering, was Re: [PATCHES] Enums patch v2
Date: 2006-12-20 16:24:02
Message-ID: 24395.1166631842@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> I assume space waste will be mostly fixed when we have 0/1 byte headers
> for varlena data types.

Hardly. int float timestamp etc types will all still have alignment issues.

regards, tom lane

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