Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> In addition to/instead of abstracting cmin/cmax to a phantom ID, what
> about allowing for two versions of the tuple header, one with cid info
> and one without? That would allow for cid info to be stripped out when
> pages were written to disk.
>

How exactly would that help? You can't just strip out cid info when
writing to disk, if you don't want to lose the information.

And it's certainly a lot more complicated than the phantom id thing.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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