Re: patch submission: truncate trailing nulls from heap rows to reduce the size of the null bitmap

On 5/2/12 10:20 AM, Jameison Martin wrote:
> Attached are the following as per various requests:
>     * test_results.txt: the performance benchmarking results, 
> 
>     * TestTrailingNull.java: the performance benchmarking code, with a few additional scenarios as per various
requests
> 
>     * hardinfo_report.txt: some information about the hardware and OS of the system on which the benchmarks were run,
and
> 
>     * postgresql.conf: the postgresql.conf used when running benchmarks. Note that the changes made to the vanilla
postgresql.confcan be identified by looking for the string 'jamie' in the file I attached (there aren't that many)
 

Nice, thanks.  I'll try some of my own tests when I get a chance; I have
a really good use-case for this optimization.

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