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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Making type Datum be 8 bytes everywhere
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In response to Making type Datum be 8 bytes everywhere  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 18.07.25 02:09, Tom Lane wrote:
> The attached patch switches to 8-byte Datums everywhere, but
> doesn't make any effort to remove the now-dead code.

Is the plan to support only exactly Datums of size 8, or Datums of size 
at least 8?

There are some optimistic conditionals like

#if SIZEOF_DATUM >= 8

I don't expect it to work right now with larger sizes, but maybe it 
should?  (uuid pass-by-value!?!)

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