Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> Now that you mention it, though, doesn't TOAST break heapam's assumption
>>>> that char(n) is fixed length? Seems like we'd better either remove that
>>>> assumption or mark char(n) nontoastable. Any opinions which is better?
> I don't see any more communication on this in my mail archives.
Nothing's been done yet, but we *must* fix this before 7.1.
I'm wondering whether it's worthwhile keeping the VARLENA_FIXED_SIZE
macro at all. Is there any potential use for it?
regards, tom lane
