Gregory Stark wrote:
>
> "Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>
> >> But I'm surprised, I had the impression that you were reluctant to consider
> >> memcpying all the data all the time.
> >
> > Uh, if the macros can read 1 and 4-byte headers, why do we need to
> > allocate memory for them?
>
> Because the macros can't read 1 and 4-byte headers. If they could we would
> have the problem with VARDATA for code sites that write to the data before
> they write the size.
OK, so what if we always create 4-byte headers, and read both.
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