On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:34 AM Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> wrote:
> After 86dc90056, the new tuple is computed with the target table's
> actual TupleDesc, so the new value respects the column's attstorage,
> which makes me think the new behavior is not wrong.
I would not have expected SET STORAGE PLAIN to disable the use of
short varlena headers. *Maybe* at some point in time there was enough
code that couldn't operate directly on short varlenas to justify a
theory that in some circumstances eschewing short headers would save
on CPU cycles. But surely in 2021 this is not true and this behavior
is not plausibly desired by anyone.
--
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
