Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes
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In response to Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes  (Shane Ambler <pgsql@Sheeky.Biz>)
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Shane Ambler wrote:
> My question is whether this is limited to system catalogs? or will this 
> benefit char() index used on any table? The second would make it more 
> worthwhile.

char(n) fields are already stored as variable-length on disk. This isn't 
applicable to them.

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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