"Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But I'm surprised, I had the impression that you were reluctant to consider >> memcpying all the data all the time. > > Uh, if the macros can read 1 and 4-byte headers, why do we need to > allocate memory for them?
Because the macros can't read 1 and 4-byte headers. If they could we would have the problem with VARDATA for code sites that write to the data before they write the size. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
