On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 11:11 PM John Naylor <john.nay...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > Hmm, I must have misunderstood this aspect. In my mind I was thinking > that if a varlen attribute were at the end, these functions would make > it easier to access them quickly. But from this and the follow-on > responses, these would be used to access varlen attributes wherever > they may be. I'll take a look at the current uses of GETSTRUCT().
I don't know whether we can or should move all the "name" columns to the end of the catalog. It would be user-visible and probably not user-desirable, but it would save something in terms of tuple deforming cost. I'm just not sure how much. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
