On Thu, 02 May 2002 21:10:40 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >Hmm ... that might work. Actually, we are trying to stuff *five* >numbers into these fields: xmin, xmax, cmin, cmax, and a VACUUM FULL >transaction id (let's call it xvac just to have a name). The code >currently assumes that cmin is not interesting simultaneously with xvac. >I think it might be true that cmax is not interesting simultaneously >with xvac either, in which case this could be made to work. (Vadim, >your thoughts?) Having read the sources recently I'm pretty sure you're right.
>I'm on the fence about it. My thoughts are probably colored by the >fact that I prefer platforms that have MAXALIGN=8, so half the time >(including all null-free rows) there'd be no savings at all. But the other half of the time we'd save 8 bytes. So on average we get savings of 4 bytes per tuple, don't we? > Now if >we could get rid of 8 bytes in the header, I'd get excited ;-) I keep trying :-) Servus Manfred ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])