On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:18:48PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Stupid question... how are varlena's handled in Datum? > > The Datum is just a pointer into the original tuple in that case.
That would still result in a speedup since you don't have to figure out where the field begins though, right? I'm curious as to how much this patch would help with sorting text... -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
