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Re: Re: patch submission: truncate trailing nulls from heap rows to reduce the size of the null bitmap - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Re: patch submission: truncate trailing nulls from heap rows to reduce the size of the null bitmap
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In response to Re: Re: patch submission: truncate trailing nulls from heap rows to reduce the size of the null bitmap  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Let's not go looking for reasons to
>> reject the approach just because we didn't expect it to work as well
>> as it does.
>
> Who here, in your opinion, is looking for reasons to reject anything?

I'm just saying that there seems to be a bit more skepticism here than
can be justified considering that the test results are all on one
side.  It wouldn't take a lot of evidence to convince me that this is
a bad idea, but it will take more than none, which is the amount we
have now.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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