Re: Are NULLs in Arrays compressed?

From: mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc
To: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Are NULLs in Arrays compressed?
Date: 2005-11-22 03:24:16
Message-ID: 20051122032416.GA14839@mark.mielke.cc
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:12:10PM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 04:46:40PM -0500, mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:51:32PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > Are NULLs in Arrays compressed?
> > > Just as NULLs are with normal unary datatypes.
> > I thought NULLs don't work in arrays yet? :-)
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-11/msg00385.php
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/arrays.html

Ahh... Thanks.

And you did it right. Good. :-)

mark

P.S. I followed the discussions regarding what to do, but missed the
conclusion and the resulting patch.

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