On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:21:20AM +0200, Albe Laurenz wrote: > Noah Misch wrote: > > Just thinking out loud, we could provide an "extern Datum > AnalyzeWideValue;" > > and direct FDW authors to use that particular datum. It could look > like a > > toasted datum of external size WIDTH_THRESHOLD+1 but bear > va_toastrelid == > > InvalidOid. Then, if future code movement leads us to actually > examine one of > > these values, we'll get an early, hard error. > > That would be very convenient indeed. > > Even better would be a function > extern Datum createAnalyzeWideValue(integer width) > so that row width calculations could be more accurate.
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