On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 09:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > Why is bcTruelen being called so many *more* times? > > I think you have misunderstood the context.
err, no, I just misread the original text. Possibly a worse error :-? > It would be way nicer if we could strip trailing blanks on storage, > and then figure a way to either reconstitute them on output (problem > here is the output function doesn't have access to typmod) or > language-lawyer our way to deciding we don't have to. Is there a spare bit on the varhdr that can be set by datatypes? It would be useful to have a bit meaning "there is a typmod stored on this Datum", that would allow the output function to do some special processing. I notice we lose on tuple access also. CHAR(n) is fixed length, but is treated as variable length for offsets. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
