Tomas Vondra <tomas.von...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 12:02 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> Tomas Vondra wrote: >>> FWIW while looking at the code I noticed that we skip wide varlena >>> values but not cstrings. Seems a bit suspicious.
>> Uh, can you actually have columns of cstring type? I don't think you >> can ... > Yeah, but then why do we handle that in compute_scalar_stats? If you're looking at what I think you're looking at, we aren't bothering because we assume that cstrings won't be very wide. Since they're not toastable or compressable, they certainly won't exceed BLCKSZ. 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