| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Sort support for macaddr8 |
| Date: | 2019-06-05 19:14:42 |
| Message-ID: | 20190605191442.GA12504@alvherre.pgsql |
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On 2019-Jun-05, Andres Freund wrote:
> I'd much rather see this tackled in a general way than fiddling with
> individual datatypes. I think we should:
>
> 1) make fetch_att(), store_att_byval() etc support datums of any length
> between 1 and <= sizeof(Datum). Probably also convert them to inline
> functions. There's a few more functions to be adjusted, but not many,
> I think.
Does this mean that datatypes that are >4 and <=8 bytes need to handle
both cases? Is it possible for them to detect the current environment?
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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