Re: Proposal for Byte savings in VarBit structure

From: Gokulakannan Somasundaram <gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for Byte savings in VarBit structure
Date: 2010-03-21 20:48:52
Message-ID: 9362e74e1003211348o176d2a0bt1d8aac1d8acdc9d@mail.gmail.com
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> This might be worth considering in a release cycle where we were going
> to break on-disk data compatibility for some other reason. But I can
> hardly imagine wanting to do it by itself. Marginal space savings for
> the "bit" types just isn't that exciting.
>
> Maybe we should start a special section of TODO for "things we might do
> next time we break data compatibility".

Thanks Tom. So when we say breaking data compatibility, we mean the next
release where we will recommend pg_dump/restore right?

Thanks,
Gokul.

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