Re: Backward reading - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Backward reading
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Msg-id 1201898122.4252.88.camel@ebony.site
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In response to Backward reading  (<mac_man2005@hotmail.it>)
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Re: Backward reading
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On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 19:25 +0100, mac_man2005@hotmail.it wrote:
> PostgreSQL allows "backward reading" tuples writing the tuple's length
> after and before the tuple proper, in case a 'randomAccess' is
> requested.
>  
> Is there any example of backward reading tuples into PostgreSQL code?

Don't think so, but we don't always use randomAccess anyway. Sounds like
we might be able to drop the length at the end of each tuple in those
cases...

--  Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com 



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