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From	Andrew Chernow
Subject	VARSIZE - why omit VARLEN?
Date	January 18, 2009 01:27:25
Msg-id	49729386.9050207@esilo.com Whole thread Raw
Responses	Re: VARSIZE - why omit VARLEN? (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Any objections adding the below to postgres.h?

#define VARLEN(PTR) (VARSIZE(PTR) - VARHDRSZ)

It adds a little more abstraction and cleans up userland code.

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Andrew Chernow
eSilo, LLC
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