 * The overall structure of a heap tuple looks like:
 *			fixed fields (HeapTupleHeaderData struct)
 *			nulls bitmap (if HEAP_HASNULL is set in t_infomask)
 *			alignment padding (as needed to make user data MAXALIGN'd)
 *			object ID (if HEAP_HASOID_OLD is set in t_infomask, not created
 *          anymore)
 *			user data fields
…
typedef struct HeapTupleFields
{
	TransactionId t_xmin;		/* inserting xact ID */
	TransactionId t_xmax;		/* deleting or locking xact ID */

	union
	{
		CommandId	t_cid;		/* inserting or deleting command ID, or both */
		TransactionId t_xvac;	/* old-style VACUUM FULL xact ID */
	}			t_field3;
} HeapTupleFields;
…
struct HeapTupleHeaderData
{
	union
	{
		HeapTupleFields t_heap;
		DatumTupleFields t_datum;
	}			t_choice;

	ItemPointerData t_ctid;		/* current TID of this or newer tuple (or a
								 * speculative insertion token) */

	/* Fields below here must match MinimalTupleData! */

#define FIELDNO_HEAPTUPLEHEADERDATA_INFOMASK2 2
	uint16		t_infomask2;	/* number of attributes + various flags */

#define FIELDNO_HEAPTUPLEHEADERDATA_INFOMASK 3
	uint16		t_infomask;		/* various flag bits, see below */

#define FIELDNO_HEAPTUPLEHEADERDATA_HOFF 4
	uint8		t_hoff;			/* sizeof header incl. bitmap, padding */

	/* ^ - 23 bytes - ^ */

#define FIELDNO_HEAPTUPLEHEADERDATA_BITS 5
	uint8		t_bits[FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER];	/* bitmap of NULLs */

	/* MORE DATA FOLLOWS AT END OF STRUCT */
};

Échauffement