Re: On-Disk Tuple Size

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, jtp <john(at)akadine(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: On-Disk Tuple Size
Date: 2002-04-20 09:04:10
Message-ID: 20020420190410.B24214@svana.org
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On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 05:22:20PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> > ...and 6 bytes for the CTID, which I guess may be unnecessary.
>
> Really? How would things work without it?

Well, from my examination of the on-disk data the CTID stored there is the
same as its location in the file, so it could just be filled in while
reading.

Unless I'm misunderstanding its purpose.

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