Thursday, August 21, 2008

Re: [HACKERS] Questions about HeapTupleHeaderData

Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:
> If I understand correctly then for read path (select) tuple is always
> HeapTuple, because we need support select xmax ... And DatumTuple is
> used for write path (insert/update) and it is "converted" to HeapTuple
> in heap_insert/heap_update function.

No, DatumTuple is used for any free-standing composite-type Datum.
Thinking about it as "write path" and "read path" seems to me to
be missing the mark entirely. In general most tuple-reading code
is supposed to work with either.

regards, tom lane

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