| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Sort support for macaddr8 |
| Date: | 2019-06-04 21:59:52 |
| Message-ID: | 20190604215952.oxhjdb4okzljq5eh@alap3.anarazel.de |
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Hi,
On 2019-06-04 14:55:16 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2019-06-04 17:37:35 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I think it might be worthwhile to optimize things so that all typlen > 0
> && typlen <= sizeof(Datum) are allowed for byval datums.
Maybe even just deprecate specifying byval at CREATE TYPE time, and
instead automatically infer it from the type length. We've had a number
of blunders around this, and I can't really see any reason for
specifying byval = false when we internally could treat it as a byval.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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