Re: [HACKERS] Arbitrary tuple size

Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> What about adding one more ItemPointerData to the tuple
> header which holds the ctid of a DATA continuation tuple. If

Oh no. Fortunately we need not in this: we can just add new flag
to t_infomask and add continuation tid at the end of tuple chunk.
Ok?

> a tuple doesn't fit into one block, this will tell where to
> get the next chunk of tuple data building a chain until an
> invalid ctid is found. The continuation tuples can have a
> negative t_natts to be easily identified and ignored by
> scanning routines.
...
>
> I'm not sure how to handle this with vacuum, but I believe
> Vadim is able to put some well placed goto's that make it.

-:)))
Ok, ok - I have great number of goto-s in my pocket -:)

Vadim