Re: Manipulating complex types as non-contiguous structures in-memory - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Manipulating complex types as non-contiguous structures in-memory
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Msg-id 20150514005301.GB9584@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Manipulating complex types as non-contiguous structures in-memory  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Manipulating complex types as non-contiguous structures in-memory  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2015-05-13 20:48:51 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I still think that going back to defining the second byte as the size
> would be better.  Fortunately, since this is only a matter of in-memory
> representations, we aren't committed to any particular answer.

Requiring sizes to be different still strikes me as a disaster. Or is
that not what you're proposing?



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