Re: Fixed length data types issue

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Gregory Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fixed length data types issue
Date: 2006-09-08 06:57:12
Message-ID: 200609080857.13784.peter_e@gmx.net
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> I think we have to find a way to remove the varlena length header
> entirely for fixed length data types since it's going to be the same
> for every single record in the table.

But that won't help in the example you posted upthread, because char(N)
is not fixed-length.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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