Re: pageinspect patch, for showing tuple data

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 03:46:25PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Why is it not convenient at all? Yes, you have a point, we need those
> fields to be able to parse the t_data properly. Still the possibility
> to show individual fields of a tuple as a bytea array either with
> toasted or detoasted values is a concept completely different from
> simply showing the page items, which is what, it seems to me,
> heap_page_items is aimed to only do. Hence, As t_infomask2, t_infomask
> and t_bits are already available as return fields of heap_page_items,
> we should simply add a function like that:
> heap_page_item_parse(Oid relid, bytea data, t_infomask2 int,
> t_infomask int, t_bits int, bool force_detoast, warning_mode bool)
> returns bytea[]

Should pageinspect create a table that contains some of the constants
used to interpret infomask?

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