Hannu Krosing wrote:
But actually that 1 free byte in the header is not currently just waste
of space. If you have any nulls in your tuple, there's going to be a
null bitmap in addition to the header. 1 byte is conveniently enough to
store the null bitmap for a table with max 8 columns,
Are we actually doing that ? I.E are null bitmaps really allocated in 1
byte steps nowadays ?
Yes.
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