Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 12:02 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Tomas Vondra wrote:
>>> FWIW while looking at the code I noticed that we skip wide varlena
>>> values but not cstrings. Seems a bit suspicious.
>> Uh, can you actually have columns of cstring type? I don't think you
>> can ...
> Yeah, but then why do we handle that in compute_scalar_stats?
If you're looking at what I think you're looking at, we aren't bothering
because we assume that cstrings won't be very wide. Since they're not
toastable or compressable, they certainly won't exceed BLCKSZ.
regards, tom lane
