On 9/13/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>
> What I'm thinking is that we should instead do this by extending the use
> of the lp_flags field. lp_flags is two bits, which we currently define
> as independent LP_USED and LP_DELETE bits, but in fact LP_DELETE is
> never used in heap pages. (It is used in indexes.) I propose that
> we redefine lp_flags as having four states, say
>
> LP_UNUSED 0
> LP_NORMAL 1
> LP_REDIRECT 2
> LP_DEAD 3
>
>
Sounds good to me. I saw you committed this change. Do you want me
to update HOT patch to use this or you are already doing that ?
Thanks,
Pavan
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