Re: Alternative variable length structure

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
> I assume the conclusion from this email thread is that though the idea
> is interesting, the complexity added would not be worth the saving of a
> few bytes.

I have same understanding about it. Besides the complexity,
there is trade-off between cpu and i/o resources.

Also, there is another approach in
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-12/msg00258.php ,
where 2byte header version of varlena is suggested. It is more simple, but
it may double intrinsic text types (shorttext, shortchar and shortvarchar).


I assume it is worth the saving of a few bytes in particular for indexes
on VLDBs, but my patch is still incomplete and needs more works.

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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center