On 04.09.2017 23:52, Andres Freund wrote:
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> Yea, I've changed that already, although it's currently added earlier,
> because the alignment is needed before, to access the column correctly.
> I've also made number of efficiency improvements, primarily to access
> columns with an absolute offset if all preceding ones are fixed width
> not null columns - that is quite noticeable performancewise.
Unfortunately, in most of real table columns are nullable.
I wonder if we can perform some optimization in this case (assuming that
in typical cases column either contains mostly non-null values, either
mostly null values).
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