Re: stupid question

Tom Lane wrote:

> rhkelly <rhkelly(at)myrealbox(dot)com> writes:
>
>>I was simply inquiring about what I consider to be an indispensible
>>element of documentation...

> [ Raises eyebrow... ] I'm not aware of any complex application in which
> file format details are considered an indispensable part of the user-level
> documentation. Do Word, Photoshop, Outlook, etc provide that info?

Which could explain why I don't use either Word or Outlook, and why
I store the images I operate on with Photoshop as .png's :)

But seriously - thank you: your poinetrs below are *much* appreciated.
kind regards, RK

> Where you want to be looking is at the developer docs, eg
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/page.html
> and at the source code --- probably
> src/include/storage/bufpage.h
> src/include/access/htup.h
> are good starting points.