On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > question: if you are storing just flags and bytes, why not use a bytea > and store the flags out of line? I'm not sure I understand your question. I am writing a custom datatype with variable size more or less following the guidelines in <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/xtypes.html>. More in details I am hacking at a GMP wrapper <http://pgmp.projects.postgresql.org/> and trying to store GMP bignums, which I can re-create by just storing a variable list of unsigned longs and a flag for the sign (note that this is not the structure the GMP library use, but is enough data to re-create it and one of the possible form of storage as a varlena - I'm just exploring to decide the best one). What do you mean for storing the flag out of line? -- Daniele -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
