I wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: >> It'd be useful for FieldStore - we'd not have to error out anymore if >> the number of columns changes (which I previously had "solved" by using >> MaxHeapAttributeNumber sized values/nulls array).
> Ah, I see. But in that case you're not really truncating the tuple > --- what you want is to be allowed to pass undersized datum/nulls > arrays and have the missing columns be taken as nulls. No, scratch that: you can't use an "extended" heap_form_tuple to solve that problem, because it's not only the form-tuple end but the deform-tuple end that needs fullsize arrays. Otherwise, we'd be losing trailing-column values in the deform-and-reform cycle. So I still don't see that there's a valid application for this feature. 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