Gregory Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> In it I said that removing the 2-byte cases had no advantages but actually
> since then I've thought of one. It makes the toaster code simpler since it can
> just set a bit in the four-byte header just as it does now. It doesn't have to
> worry about converting to a 2-byte header.
Run that by me again? A toast pointer datum ought to have a 1-byte
header, since its only twenty-something bytes long.
regards, tom lane