On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:42:49AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > #define VARDATA_4B(PTR) ((PTR)->va_4byte.va_data)
> > #define VARDATA_2B(PTR) ((PTR)->va_2byte.va_data)
> > #define VARDATA_1B(PTR) ((PTR)->va_1byte.va_data)
> I thought we had abandoned the 2-byte-header variant? Maybe you need to
> start a separate thread about exactly which of the bit-level proposals
> you want to implement. There were quite a few tradeoffs discussed in
> the previous thread IIRC.
I agreed with Tom in the last thread. The 2 byte case doesn't seem like
good value for the return.
Simpler analysis results in easier to optimize code for the compiler,
and less complexity stored on disk.
Please remove 2B. :-)
Cheers,
mark
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