Re: regarding storage in postgres

Nithin Sontineni wrote:
> Hi,
>          i want to know how postgres will store a
> relation in pages and where can i see the code related
> to this in the source code.Plz help me .
> 
>  S.Nithin 
> 
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Nithin,

You can find the code in src/backend/storage.
There you will find a couple of directories containing code of various 
parts of the storage system.

I guess you will be most interested in page/bufpage.c. There you can see  how a page works. I highly suggest to read
thecorresponding header file
 

[hs@athlon storage]$ pwd
/usr/src/pg/postgresql-8.0.2/src/include/storage
[hs@athlon storage]$ ls -l bufpage.h
-rw-r--r--  1 hs hs 10255 Dec 31 23:03 bufpage.h

There you can find information about the layout of pages.
best regards,
    hans


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