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Re: Re: Call for platforms

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Mark Knox" <segfault@hardline.org>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-03-27T04:14:42Z
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"Mark Knox" <segfault@hardline.org> writes:
> On 25 Mar 2001, at 16:07, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Does that database have any user-created relations in it, or is it
>> just a virgin database?

> Totally virgin. I created it just for that select you wanted.

Okay.   Would you create a couple of random tables in it and do the
select again?  I want to see what ctid looks like in a user-created
table.

> I suspect it might be an alignment problem

Sort of.  I am suspicious that sizeof(ItemPointerData) is returning 8
rather than 6 as one might expect.

			regards, tom lane