Re: [PATCHES] Reduce heap tuple header size

Tom Lane wrote:
> Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at> writes:
> > ... I wonder
> > whether we shouldn't apply this second version (without the configure
> > parts) and put all forthcoming format changes under #ifndef
> > PG72FORMAT.
> 
> Seems reasonable.  I generally dislike #ifdef clutter, but the #ifs
> would only be around a couple of macro definitions AFAICT, so the
> readability hit would be minimal.  And someone who wanted
> back-compatibility would be able to have it, whichever way we jump
> on the decision for 7.3.

I committed the version with no #ifdef's.  If we need them, we can add
them later, but it is likely we will never need them.

> At the rate Manfred is going, he'll have patches for all the tuple and
> page header related issues before August anyway ... so my original gripe
> about wanting to group those changes into a single release will become
> moot ;-).  I certainly have no objection to doing them all in 7.3
> instead of 7.4 if we can get it done.

Yes.  Manfred, keep going.  ;-)

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