Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:
> I'm not pretending to know anything about it, but can't this be made
> into a pointer that is accessed as a member of a C structure. This
> should not need rearranging the field order.
You can't store pointers on disk. At least not usefully.
> From what I remember the main concern was lack of support for varlen
> types in cache manager (whatever it means) ?
That would be a localized fix; I'm not very worried about it. A
system-wide change in notation for getting at NAMEs would be quite
painful, though.
regards, tom lane
