Tom Lane wrote:
> Now that you mention it, though, doesn't TOAST break heapam's assumption
> that char(n) is fixed length? Seems like we'd better either remove that
> assumption or mark char(n) nontoastable. Any opinions which is better?
Is the saved overhead from assuming char(n) is fixed really
that big that it's worth NOT to gain the TOAST advantages?
After the GB benchmarks we know that we have some spare
performance to waste for such things :-)
Jan
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