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Same - the row format itself starts with a bitmask listing all null columns. You don’t need to read the column data itself to determine if a column is null. ht
by zeroimpl 4y ago
Same - the row format itself starts with a bitmask listing all null columns. You don’t need to read the column data itself to determine if a column is null.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-page-layout.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-page-layout....