Re: [PATCH] pageinspect function to decode infomasks

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pageinspect function to decode infomasks
Date: 2017-07-20 03:44:42
Message-ID: CAH2-Wzmdi6gr3FWtggKcSJZdt7Z1z75WbBCp4O8P6j5mfQSJLQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 8:33 PM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> That's silly, so here's a patch to teach pageinspect how to decode infomasks
> to a human readable array of flag names.
>
> Example:
>
> SELECT t_infomask, t_infomask2, flags
> FROM heap_page_items(get_raw_page('test1', 0)),
> LATERAL heap_infomask_flags(t_infomask, t_infomask2, true) m(flags);
> t_infomask | t_infomask2 | flags
> ------------+-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2816 | 2 |
> {HEAP_XMIN_COMMITTED,HEAP_XMIN_INVALID,HEAP_XMAX_INVALID,HEAP_XMIN_FROZEN}
> (1 row)

Seems like a good idea to me.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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