Re: [HACKERS] varchar(), text,char() overhead - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] varchar(), text,char() overhead
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Msg-id 199801220106.UAA19629@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] varchar(), text,char() overhead  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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>
> I had forgotten about your mention of this.  I am running some tests
> now, and things look promising.  However, if we go to 64k or 128k
> tuples, we would be in trouble.  (We can do 64k tuples by changing the
> 'special variable' length value from -1 to 0.
>

I am not going to make any changes to the variable length overhead for
char(), varchar(), and text at this time.  It is too close to beta.  I
will keep the item on the TODO list, and we can hash it out later.

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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us

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