Re: FUNC_MAX_ARGS benchmarks

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: "Nigel J(dot) Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FUNC_MAX_ARGS benchmarks
Date: 2002-08-06 14:17:20
Message-ID: 15351.1028643440@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)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

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