On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Leonardo Francalanci <m_li...@yahoo.it> wrote: >> I don't think making xinfo shorter will save anything, because >> whatever follows it is going to be a 4-byte quantity and therefore >> 4-byte aligned. > > > ups, didn't notice it. > > I'll split xinfo into: > > uint16 xinfo; > uint16 presentFlags; > > > I guess it helps with the reading? I mean, instead > of having a single uint32?
My feeling would be just keep it as uint32. Breaking it up into chunks doesn't seem useful to me. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers