Re: Variable length varlena headers redux

"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.

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