Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
> On 23.11.2012 17:53, Tom Lane wrote:
>> We could avoid this problem if we were prepared to make type "name"
>> be varlena, ...
> It would actually be nice to do that because it would *reduce* the
> amount of space and memory used for the catalogs in the typical case,
Agreed, that would be a nicer place to be ... but the amount of work
required to get there is daunting, and rather out of proportion to the
benefit IMO.
regards, tom lane