Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Fields earlier in the table definition (further to the left) are
>> marginally faster to access than ones further to the right. I doubt it
>> would be real noticeable unless you had hundreds of fields altogether.
> Do we still "cache" field offsets for not-nullable-fixed-size columns?
Yeah, we do, but I didn't think he wanted to get into that level of
detail ... in any case it's a safe bet that earlier fields are no slower
than later ones.
regards, tom lane