Re: patch submission: truncate trailing nulls from heap rows to reduce the size of the null bitmap [Review]

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jameison Martin <jameisonb(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)mail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: patch submission: truncate trailing nulls from heap rows to reduce the size of the null bitmap [Review]
Date: 2013-06-24 21:02:02
Message-ID: CA+U5nMJG6gQLHxB93JNnYRMcmMEj_WMOM2t2UDz87oHS8VYKfg@mail.gmail.com
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On 24 June 2013 21:50, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> > So, Tom, how's that pluggable storage format coming? :-)
>
> Well, actually, it's looking to me like heap_form_tuple will be
> underneath the API cut, because alternate storage managers will probably
> have other tuple storage formats --- column stores being the poster
> child here, but in any case the tuple header format is very unlikely
> to be universal.
>

Hopefully we would allow multiple storage managers to be active at once,
one per table?

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