"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Once this is done it may be worth having arrays convert to short varlenas as >> well. > > Elements of arrays are not subject to being toasted by themselves, so > I don't think you can make that work. At least not without breaking > wide swaths of code that works fine today.
You think it's more likely there are places that build arrays and then read the items back without passing through detoast than there are places that build tuples and do so? Btw I ran into some problems with system tables. Since many of them are read using the GETSTRUCT method and in that method the first varlena field should be safely accessible, i would have to not skip the alignment for the first varlena field in system tables. Instead I just punt on all system tables. The only one that seems like it'll be loss on is pg_statistic and there the biggest problem is the space wasted inside the arrays, not before the varlena fields. Also, int2vector and oidvector don't expect to be toasted so I've skipped them as well. If we want to have an escape hatch they would have to be so marked. For now I just hard coded them. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
