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Old 04-12-2008, 05:02 AM
Martijn van Oosterhout
 
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Default Re: Another idea for dealing with cmin/cmax

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:35:31AM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> We could get rid of t_hoff, because we should always be able to
> calculate the header size. Then we're down to 18 bytes.


Without t_hoff, how do you know the size of the null bitmap? You could
probably do it only if you assume the null bitmap, if present, always
covers all the columns...

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.


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