| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Short varlena headers and arrays |
| Date: | 2007-02-20 04:55:18 |
| Message-ID: | 19866.1171947318@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> Elements of arrays are not subject to being toasted by themselves, so
>> I don't think you can make that work. At least not without breaking
>> wide swaths of code that works fine today.
> You think it's more likely there are places that build arrays and then read
> the items back without passing through detoast than there are places that
> build tuples and do so?
The former is valid per the coding rules, the latter is not, so...
regards, tom lane
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