Re: bugfix: when the blocksize is 32k, the function page_header of pageinspect returns negative numbers.

On 2021/7/8 3:54 下午, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 11:28:06PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>> I think you can refer to this prior commit for guidance.
>>
>> commit f18aa1b203930ed28cfe42e82d3418ae6277576d
>> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
>> Date:   Tue Jan 19 10:28:05 2021 +0100
>>
>>      pageinspect: Change block number arguments to bigint
> 
> Yes, thanks.  Peter's recent work is what I had in mind.  I agree that
> we could improve the situation, and the change is not complicated once
> you know what needs to be done.  It needs to be done as follows:
> - Create a new pageinspect--1.9--1.10.sql.
> - Provide a proper implementation for older extension version based on
> the output parameter types, with a lookup at the TupleDesc for the
> function to adapt.
> - Add tests to sql/oldextversions.sql to stress the old function based
> on smallint results.
> - Bump pageinspect.control.
> 
> Quan, would you like to produce a patch?  That's a good exercise to
> understand how the maintenance of extensions is done.

Ok. I'll do it.

> --
> Michael
>