Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Gregory Stark wrote:
>
>> Conceivably we could grab another infomask bit to indicate "uses
>> new-style
>> varlenas" and then have heaptuple.c understand how to convert them in
>> place.
>> But that leads to a ton of memory management or page locking problems.
>
> My thinking is that when a page in the old format is read in, it's
> converted to the new format before doing anything else with it.
Yes, I agree with Heikki. Any other place for conversion will generate a
big complexity of maintanace.
Zdenek
