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From Andrew Chernow
Subject VARSIZE - why omit VARLEN?
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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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