Re: [HACKERS] LONG

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jan Wieck <wieck(at)debis(dot)com>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] LONG
Date: 1999-12-11 23:28:07
Message-ID: 199912112328.SAA13267@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > At least this is my impression from some descriptions, and it also
> > seems reasonable thing to do in general as we dont want to read in
> > 500K tuples (and then sort them) just to join on int fields and filter
> > out on boolean and count(n) < 3.
>
> Even if this is a side effect I haven't seen at the
> beginning, it would be one of the best side effect's I've
> ever seen. A really tempting one that's worth to try it
> anyway.
>

Or make struct varlena vl_len a 15-bit field, and make islong a 1-bit
field. I don't remember if using & manually or bit fields is faster.

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