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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] number of attributes in page files?
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In response to number of attributes in page files?  (Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com>)
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Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com> writes:
> Is it possible to get rid of the "t_natts" fields in the tuple header?
> Is this field only for "alter table add/drop" support?

"Only"?  A lot of people consider that pretty important ...

But removing 2 bytes isn't going to save anything, on most machines,
because of alignment considerations.

            regards, tom lane

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