Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 12:40 +0100, Greg Stark wrote: >> Why bit just add a new bitfield for flags if we need them? I'm usually >> the one worried about data density so perhaps I should be on the other >> side of the fence here but I'm not sure. The conventional wisdom is >> that wal bandwidth is not a major issue.
> In some cases, but my wish is also to minimise WAL volume as much as > possible. I'm with Greg on this one: baroque bit-squeezing schemes are a bad idea. You still haven't answered the question of what you need four more bits for (and why four more is all that anyone will ever need --- unless you can prove that, we might as well just add another flag field). regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers