Gregory Stark wrote: > > "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> But I'm surprised, I had the impression that you were reluctant to consider > >> memcpying all the data all the time. > > > > Uh, if the macros can read 1 and 4-byte headers, why do we need to > > allocate memory for them? > > Because the macros can't read 1 and 4-byte headers. If they could we would > have the problem with VARDATA for code sites that write to the data before > they write the size.
OK, so what if we always create 4-byte headers, and read both. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
