Re: Small patch for GiST: move childoffnum to child

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-07-15T09:27:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 13.07.2011 22:04, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 13.07.2011 21:56, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
>> Thank you very much for detail explanation. But this line of modified
>> patch
>> seems strange for me:
>> *newchildoffnum = blkno;
>> I believe it should be:
>> *newchildoffnum = i;
>
> Yes, you're right. It's scary that it worked during testing anyway.
> Maybe the resulting tree was indeed broken but it didn't affect the
> subsequent inserts so I didn't notice.

Ok, committed this now. I decided to rename the childoffnum field to 
"downlinkoffnum". I figured it'd be dangerous that the field means 
something subtly different in different versions, if we need to 
backpatch bug fixes that use that field.

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