Hi,
On 6/21/17 9:47 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
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> like int8 or numeric, it won't work at all. Even for other things,
> it's going to cause problems because the bit patterns won't be what
> the code is expecting; e.g. bitmap scans care about the structure of
> the TID, not just how many bits it is. (Due credit: Somebody, maybe
> Alvaro, pointed out this problem before, at PGCon.)
Can you elaborate a bit more about this TID bit pattern issues? I do
remember that not all TIDs are valid due to safeguards on individual
fields, like for example
Assert(iptr->ip_posid < (1 << MaxHeapTuplesPerPageBits))
But perhaps there are some other issues?
regards
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