> > 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.
>
Or make struct varlena vl_len a 15-bit field, and make islong a 1-bit
field. I don't remember if using & manually or bit fields is faster.
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