"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>>> Pretty much not happening; or are you volunteering to fix every part of
>>> the system to tolerate injections of inserted data anywhere in a stored
>>> datum?
>
>> I was thinking to do it at a low level as the xlog records are prepared to be
>> written to the filesystem and as the data is being read from disk. I haven't
>> read that code yet to see where to inject it but I understand there's already
>> a copy happening and it could be done there.
>
> You understand wrong ... a tuple sitting on disk is normally read
> directly from the shared buffer, and I don't think we want to pay for
> copying it.
"xlog records"
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Gregory Stark
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