Re: [HACKERS] rollback varchar change - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Vadim B. Mikheev
Subject Re: [HACKERS] rollback varchar change
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Msg-id 34B45A68.DB190020@sable.krasnoyarsk.su
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In response to rollback varchar change  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] rollback varchar change
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> I have found that the varchar() change I made requires a new
> pg_attribute field, so I am rolling back the change until I get a fully
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Please try some other way. As I remember, you said about breaking
vl_len into 2 parts - very nice for me, but I'd recommend to leave
varlena as is and add new structure - for compatibility and to allow
text (etc) be longer 2^16 someday (multi-representation feature).
Just like attlen -1 is used in many parts of code to flag varlena,
you could use -2 to flag new structure.

> working patch.

Vadim

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