On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 11:11 PM John Naylor
<john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Hmm, I must have misunderstood this aspect. In my mind I was thinking
> that if a varlen attribute were at the end, these functions would make
> it easier to access them quickly. But from this and the follow-on
> responses, these would be used to access varlen attributes wherever
> they may be. I'll take a look at the current uses of GETSTRUCT().
I don't know whether we can or should move all the "name" columns to
the end of the catalog. It would be user-visible and probably not
user-desirable, but it would save something in terms of tuple
deforming cost. I'm just not sure how much.
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Robert Haas
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