On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Joshua Tolley <eggyk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> A question: why does attdistinct become entry #5 instead of going at the >>> end? >>> I assume it's because the order here controls the column order, and it makes >>> sense to have attdistinct next to attstattarget, since they're related. Is >>> that right? Thanks in advance... > >> Yep, that was my thought. > > We generally want fixed-size columns before variable-size ones, to ease > accessing them from C code. So it shouldn't go at the end in any case. > Beyond that it's mostly aesthetics, with maybe some thought for avoiding > unnecessary alignment padding.
I thought about that as well; it should be OK where it is, in that regard. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
