Re: Heap page diagnostic functions

Any suggestions? pgdiagnostics?

I'm happy with forensics myself.

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Sounds good, though I am worried that "forensics" will not be a word
> easily understood by non-native English speakers.
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> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> I'm taking over Simon's heap page diagnostic functions to get them into
>> shape for committing.
>>
>> I'm thinking of having a new contrib-module for them: pgforensics. All
>> the new functions go there, and I'm also going to move bt_page_items,
>> bt_page_stats, and bt_metap functions from pgstattuple to the new
>> module. They're all low-level functions that no application should be
>> calling, so there shouldn't be any compatibility issues in moving them.
>>
>> That'd leave only the functions that a DBA or tools should be concerned
>> with in pgstattuple, and all the low-level debugging aids to the new
>> module. Thoughts?
>>
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