Re: FUNC_MAX_ARGS benchmarks

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
Cc: "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-06T14:17:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:
> I'm not pretending to know anything about it, but can't this be made
> into a pointer that is accessed as a member of a C structure. This
> should not need rearranging the field order.

You can't store pointers on disk.  At least not usefully.

> From what I remember the main concern was lack of support for varlen
> types in cache manager (whatever it means) ?

That would be a localized fix; I'm not very worried about it.  A
system-wide change in notation for getting at NAMEs would be quite
painful, though.

			regards, tom lane