I sent two emails last night, one to -patches and one to -hackers. Neither seems to have come through. Has anyone else seen them?
On -patches I posted an updated patch that was functionally a noop but changed the macro api to SETVARSIZE(). It also replaced the VARATT_SIZE and VARATT_DATA macros with VARSIZE and VARDATA, changed inet to call detoast, and changed arrays, inet, geometric data types and a handful of others to use SET_VARSIZE instead of accessing a struct member directly. On -hackers I reposted Tom's email where he proposed two sets of bitpatterns with tradeoffs and also included an additional one that was the second of his with the 2-byte cases removed. In it I said that removing the 2-byte cases had no advantages but actually since then I've thought of one. It makes the toaster code simpler since it can just set a bit in the four-byte header just as it does now. It doesn't have to worry about converting to a 2-byte header. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
