On 2/15/17 1:37 PM, Ryan Murphy wrote:

    attcacheoff can only be set positive for fields preceding any varlena
    (typlen<0, but including the first such) or nullable values.  I don't
    know how much faster it is with the cache; you can measure it if your
    curiosity is strong enough -- just set the first column to nullable.


Thanks!  Maybe I'll do some benchmarks.

You'll probably want to do those at a C level, bypassing the executor. I would guess that executor overhead will completely swamp the effect of the cache in most cases.
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