Re: Another idea for dealing with cmin/cmax - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Another idea for dealing with cmin/cmax
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Msg-id 20060929095259.GA8702@svana.org
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In response to Re: Another idea for dealing with cmin/cmax  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Another idea for dealing with cmin/cmax  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:35:31AM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> We could get rid of t_hoff, because we should always be able to
> calculate the header size. Then we're down to 18 bytes.

Without t_hoff, how do you know the size of the null bitmap? You could
probably do it only if you assume the null bitmap, if present, always
covers all the columns...

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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