Re: Short varlena headers and arrays - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Short varlena headers and arrays
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Msg-id 19866.1171947318@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Short varlena headers and arrays  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> Elements of arrays are not subject to being toasted by themselves, so
>> I don't think you can make that work.  At least not without breaking
>> wide swaths of code that works fine today.

> You think it's more likely there are places that build arrays and then read
> the items back without passing through detoast than there are places that
> build tuples and do so?

The former is valid per the coding rules, the latter is not, so...
        regards, tom lane


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