Re: Mail getting through? Short varlena headers

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gregory Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Mail getting through? Short varlena headers
Date: 2007-02-16 17:21:25
Message-ID: 1039.1171646485@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Gregory Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> In it I said that removing the 2-byte cases had no advantages but actually
> since then I've thought of one. It makes the toaster code simpler since it can
> just set a bit in the four-byte header just as it does now. It doesn't have to
> worry about converting to a 2-byte header.

Run that by me again? A toast pointer datum ought to have a 1-byte
header, since its only twenty-something bytes long.

regards, tom lane

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