From: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Large databases, performance
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 20:11:47 +0530
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In-Reply-To: <1928.1034087882@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <1034085052.1094.14.camel@haggis>
On 8 Oct 2002 at 10:38, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> It's not simpler: it's more complicated, because you need an additional
> input item to figure out the size of any given column in a record.
> Making sure that that info is available every place it's needed is one
> of the costs of supporting a feature like this.
I understand. Can we put this in say page header instead of tuple header. While
all the arguments you have put are really good, the stellar redundancy
certainly can do with a mid-way solution.
Just a thought..
Bye
Shridhar
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