Re: Making type Datum be 8 bytes everywhere

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Making type Datum be 8 bytes everywhere
Date: 2025-08-13 19:29:59
Message-ID: c890e34c-8a9c-4352-bce4-a7f91a365c48@eisentraut.org
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On 12.08.25 21:48, Tom Lane wrote:
> PFA v2 with these changes. I feel like this is pretty close to
> committable now.

This looks good to me.

One additional comment: In network.c and varlena.c there are a couple of
comments that match /4 byte datum/ that talk about abbreviation support
in that circumstance. Those should probably be removed or reworded.

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