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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2006-09-14 17:34:14 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2006-09-14 17:34:14 +0000
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Add description for variable-length header:
> One idea is to store the header in network byte order (high bits > first), and read the high bits to determine the header length.
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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#FF0000" vlink="#A00000" alink="#0000FF">
<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</a>)<br/>
-Last updated: Thu Sep 14 13:14:41 EDT 2006
+Last updated: Thu Sep 14 13:34:00 EDT 2006
</p>
<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.
@@ -1229,7 +1229,9 @@ first.
rows from disk to memory.
</p>
</li><li>Support a smaller header for short variable-length fields?
-<p> <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00848.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00848.php</a>
+<p> One idea is to store the header in network byte order (high bits
+ first), and read the high bits to determine the header length.
+ <a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00848.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00848.php</a>
</p>
</li><li>Reduce the row header size?
</li></ul>