From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | "pgsql-patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Two aesthetic bugs in the 1-byte packed varlena code |
Date: | 2007-06-12 19:12:37 |
Message-ID: | 23376.1181675557@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> After looking closer, I think there are worse problems here: the code is
>> still using VARSIZE/VARDATA etc, which it should not be because the
>> field could easily be in 1-byte-header form.
> Well that's ok because VARATT_IS_EXTENDED returns true for 1-byte forms so
> it'll detoast them first.
Ah, right.
> We could avoid the detoasting but given that it's
> expecting the chunks to be compressed anyways the memcpys of the smallest
> chunks probably don't matter much either way. I'm assuming it's like toast in
> that only the last chunk will be smaller than LOBLKSIZE anyways, right?
Well, it's like toast except that there can be unwritten "holes" in a LO.
Still, in normal cases you'd expect only the last partial page to be
potentially short enough for 1-B format, and even then only about 1/16th
of the time. OK, not worth changing then.
> There should never even be a null bitmap right? Maybe we should just
> elog(ERROR) if we find HeapTupleHasNulls(tuple) to be true at all.
That sounds like a good and cheap test. Will make it so.
regards, tom lane
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