Bruce Momjian wrote:
Let's go ahead and apply the patch. While this change isn't very significant, I bet there will be other changes in 8.2 where we will want to change the database for a significant benefit, like reducing the tuple header by 4 bytes by recompressing the four xid/cid fields back into three.
All of which makes me very uncomfortable about doing 64 bit enums. I am still trying to think of a better solution.
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