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From: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Save a few bytes in pg_attribute
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 09:43:23 -0700
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Hi,

On 2023-03-21 17:36:48 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 21.03.23 00:51, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andres Freund <[email protected]> writes:
> > > On 2023-03-20 10:37:36 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > I agree that attinhcount could be narrowed, but I have some concern
> > > > about attstattarget.  IIRC, the limit on attstattarget was once 1000
> > > > and then we raised it to 10000.  Is it inconceivable that we might
> > > > want to raise it to 100000 someday?
> > 
> > > Hard to believe that'd happen in a minor version - and I don't think there'd
> > > an issue with widening it again in a major version?
> > 
> > True.  However, I think Tomas' idea of making these columns nullable
> > is even better than narrowing them.

Why not do both?


> The context of my message was to do the proposed change for PG16 to buy back
> a few bytes that are being added by another feature

How much would you need to buy back to "reach parity"?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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