From fa2801e36122e84ab88f2a03b8eeaa4ce0dc1b47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:34:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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.
---
doc/TODO | 4 +++-
doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html | 6 ++++--
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index 3296f3c41bc..2c31aebf3ec 100644
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
PostgreSQL TODO List
====================
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us)
-Last updated: Thu Sep 14 13:14:41 EDT 2006
+Last updated: Thu Sep 14 13:34:00 EDT 2006
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -1365,6 +1365,8 @@ Miscellaneous Performance
o Support a smaller header for short variable-length fields?
+ One idea is to store the header in network byte order (high bits
+ first), and read the high bits to determine the header length.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00848.php
o Reduce the row header size?
diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
index 990104c4e05..9e44a425dab 100644
--- a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
+++ b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
<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>
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