From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Billions of records? |
Date: | 2003-07-21 21:43:34 |
Message-ID: | 200307212143.h6LLhY721461@candle.pha.pa.us |
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I have an internals presentation on my home page below. There is a PDF
that will give a general overview,and of course the source code has the
details.
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:07:22PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Jim C. Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> writes:
> > > BTW, is there any documentation on the structure of index pages?
> >
> > Same as heap pages...
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/page.html
> > The index tuple header layout is different from heap tuple headers,
> > but the other info on that page applies.
>
> Sorry, said one thing and meant another... is there documentation on
> index *tuple* layout?
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