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Previously, the decision to store values in leaves or within the child pointer was made at compile time, with variable length values using leaves by necessity. This commit allows introspecting the length of variable length values at runtime for that decision. This requires the ability to tell whether the last-level child pointer is actually a value, so we use a pointer tag in the lowest level bit. Use this in TID store. This entails adding a byte to the header to reserve space for the tag. Commit f35bd9bf3 stores up to three offsets within the header with no bitmap, and now the header can be embedded as above. This reduces worst-case memory usage when TIDs are sparse. Reviewed (in an earlier version) by Masahiko Sawada Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANWCAZYw+_KAaUNruhJfE=h6WgtBKeDG32St8vBJBEY82bGVRQ@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoBci3Hujzijubomo1tdwH3XtQ9F89cTNQ4bsQijOmqnEw@mail.gmail.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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