On 1 June 2013 19:25, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> wrote:

> Hmm, it would probably be much easier to squeeze, say, one byte from the
> tuple header, than full four bytes. Then you could store store a null bitmap
> for upto 16 columns, without crossing the 24 byte mark. That would already
> get you much of the benefit.

It seemed worth recording the idea, though I agree that now its
recorded its not the best idea for reducing table size.

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