Re: pageinspect: Hash index support

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 9/23/16 1:56 AM, Amit Kapila wrote:
>> which comment are you referring here?  hashm_mapp contains block
>> numbers of bitmap pages.
>
> The comment I'm referring to says
>
>     The blknos of these bitmap pages are kept in bitmaps[]; nmaps is the
>     number of currently existing bitmaps.
>
> But there is no "bitmaps" field anywhere.
>

Okay.  You are right, it should be hashm_mapp.

>> In the above code, it appears that you are trying to calculate
>> max_avail space for all pages in same way.  Don't you need to
>> calculate it differently for bitmap page or meta page as they don't
>> share the same format as other type of pages?
>
> Is this even useful for hash indexes?
>

I think so.  It will be helpful for bucket and overflow pages.  They
store the index tuples similar to btree.  Is there a reason, why you
think it won't be useful?


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Amit Kapila.
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