Re: The documentation for storage type 'plain' actually allows single byte header

2023-10-31 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 09:59:04PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 09:56:13PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I did some more research. It turns out that the source slot/planSlot is > > populating its pg_attribute information via makeTargetEntry() and it > > has no concept

Re: The documentation for storage type 'plain' actually allows single byte header

2023-10-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 09:56:13PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I did some more research. It turns out that the source slot/planSlot is > populating its pg_attribute information via makeTargetEntry() and it > has no concept of a storage type. > > Digging further, I found that we cannot get rid

Re: The documentation for storage type 'plain' actually allows single byte header

2023-10-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 09:48:05PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Here is the original thread from pgsql-docs: > > > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/167336599095.2667301.15497893107226841625%40wrigleys.postgresql.org > > The report is about single-byte headers being used for

Re: The documentation for storage type 'plain' actually allows single byte header

2023-10-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 06:45:52PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Laurenz Albe writes: > > On Fri, 2023-09-29 at 18:19 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> Where did we end with this? Is a doc patch the solution? > > > I don't think this went anywhere, and a doc patch is not the solution. > > Tom has