Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postg...@gmail.com> writes: > ... with that patch we actually don't need the attcacheoff in the > pg_atttribute struct: it only needs to be present in the derived > "TupleAttrAlignData" structs which carry the > length/alignment/storage/byval info.
Yeah, I was wondering about that too: keeping attcacheoff as local state in slots might get us all its win without so much conceptual dirtiness. regards, tom lane