Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> writes: > I know that in practice, even virtual address space is significantly > less than 64-bits on x86_64, so I think that there should be several > bits there for the taking, even if the addresses are not aligned > (although, they are). However, I have no idea if there is any > precedent for this general idea at all, and would feel better about it > if there was. I guess we don't have to make it any more complicated > than your argument about alignment.
There's a very long history of code stealing bits out of pointers, and all of it is bad and unportable in the long run :-(. Let's not go there. I thought the idea of getting rid of isnull by physically segregating the null items sounded good though. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers