Re: CLUSTER can change t_len

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>
>> We have a comment /* be conservative */ in the function, but I'm not sure
>> we actually need the MAXALIGN. However, there would be almost no benefits
>> to keep t_len in small value because we often treat memory in MAXALIGN
>> unit.
>
> Hmm, the conservatism at that point affects the free space calculations. I'm
> not sure if it makes any difference in practice, but I'm also not sure it
> doesn't. pd_upper is always MAXALIGNed, but pd_lower is not.
>
> This would be more in line with what the main heap_insert code does:
>


Doesn't this cause assertion failures in heap_fill_tuple when the data
size isn't what's expected? I guess we never actually use the t_len
for later tuple reconstructions, we just recompute the needed size?
-- 
greg