ITAGAKI Takahiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the new text type wins VARCHAR in many respects, > I'd like to propose to replace VARCHAR with it.
This idea would impose fairly significant overhead in a number of places, for instance locating field starts within a tuple. It didn't appear to me that you'd even tried to measure that overhead is? Given that slot_getattr and friends are often hotspots, I don't think the costs involved can be ignored. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend