Extend the MinimalTuple concept to tuplesort.c, thereby reducing the

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: cdd5178c69c4cc80baedba0c7829c63b9f78d0f5
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2006-06-27T16:53:02Z
Releases: 8.2.0
Extend the MinimalTuple concept to tuplesort.c, thereby reducing the
per-tuple space overhead for sorts in memory.  I chose to replace the
previous patch that tried to write out the bare minimum amount of data
when sorting on disk; instead, just dump the MinimalTuples as-is.  This
wastes 3 to 10 bytes per tuple depending on architecture and null-bitmap
length, but the simplification in the writetup/readtup routines seems
worth it.

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