Re: Re: Fixes to index pages

Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > Tom, here are the changes I was thinking about to clean up a few areas
> > > in index pages tables.  I will hold the patch until 7.2.
> >
> > What happened to our discussion about keeping t_info bit 13 unused??
>
> I wasn't going to reserve it in the patch. I figured I would make all
> the items/flags match, and if someone wants to reserve it, it is easy to
> do in one place.  I imagine 7.2 is going to be dump/reload anyway so the
> decision can be made during development cycle.  I basically didn't want
> to leave a bit gap and leave it unnamed because it could cause
> confusion.
>

You have added the following TODO recently.
 * Add deleted bit to index tuples to reduce heap access

Where would you have the deleted bit in IndexTupleData ?

Regards,
Hiroshi Inoue