Re: [HACKERS] questionable code in heap_formtuple()]

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Cc: t-ishii@sra.co.jp, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-09-04T17:51:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > around line 812 in access/common/heaptuple.c:
> > 
> > 	len = sizeof *tuple - sizeof tuple->t_bits;
> > 
> > This seems questionable for me. 


> > I think more acculate way to calculate the offset is:
> > 
> > 	len = (char *)&tuple->t_bits[0] - (char *)tuple;

OK, now I am more confused.  Doesn't this work:

    len = sizeof(HeapTupleData) - offsetof(HeapTupleData.t_bits);      

while your solution is finding the size of the area before t_bits?

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