Re: Variable length varlena headers redux - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Variable length varlena headers redux
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Msg-id 10255.1171504953@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Variable length varlena headers redux  (elein <elein@varlena.com>)
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elein <elein@varlena.com> writes:
> I want to register, just in principle, that I object to changing
> the structure of a varlena.  

Indeed, I'm doing my best to restrain Greg from changing what a
datatype-specific function will see by default.  The stuff with
variable-length headers should be confined to a relatively small
number of functions in which we're willing to pay a code-ugliness
penalty for speed.
        regards, tom lane


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