Re: [HACKERS] LONG

Hannu Krosing wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >
> > But I don't really see why this would be either easier to do or
> > more reliable than storing multiple segments of a tuple in the
> > primary relation itself. And I don't much care for
> > institutionalizing a hack like a special "LONG" datatype.
>
> AFAIK the "hack" is similar to what Oracle does.
>
> At least this is my impression from some descriptions, and it also
> seems reasonable thing to do in general as we dont want to read in
> 500K tuples (and then sort them) just to join on int fields and filter
> out on boolean and count(n) < 3.

Even if this is a side effect I haven't seen at the
beginning, it would be one of the best side effect's I've
ever seen. A really tempting one that's worth to try it
anyway.

Jan

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