Re: [HACKERS] Pie-in-sky dreaming about reworking tuple layout entirely

2006-10-05 Thread Jim Nasby
On Oct 3, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: On 10/3/06, Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't shake the feeling that merely tweaking the way our varlenas work with a shortvarlena or with compressed varlena headers is missing the real source of our headaches. It seems very

[HACKERS] Pie-in-sky dreaming about reworking tuple layout entirely

2006-10-03 Thread Gregory Stark
I can't shake the feeling that merely tweaking the way our varlenas work with a shortvarlena or with compressed varlena headers is missing the real source of our headaches. It seems very strange to me to be trying to step through a tuple with length bits at the head of every field. It's a lot of

Re: [HACKERS] Pie-in-sky dreaming about reworking tuple layout entirely

2006-10-03 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 10/3/06, Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't shake the feeling that merely tweaking the way our varlenas work with a shortvarlena or with compressed varlena headers is missing the real source of our headaches. It seems very strange to me to be trying to step through a tuple with