Re: performance versus order of fields in row

Jan Wieck  writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Fields earlier in the table definition (further to the left) are
>> marginally faster to access than ones further to the right.  I doubt it
>> would be real noticeable unless you had hundreds of fields altogether.

> Do we still "cache" field offsets for not-nullable-fixed-size columns?

Yeah, we do, but I didn't think he wanted to get into that level of
detail ... in any case it's a safe bet that earlier fields are no slower
than later ones.

			regards, tom lane