Re: nbtree: reduce code redundancy by using _bt_getmeta() in _bt_gettrueroot()

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
To: Neil Chen <carpenter.nail.cz@gmail.com>, Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-07-07T21:32:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 16/01/2026 10:09, Neil Chen wrote:
> Hi Chao,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 4:11 PM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com 
> <mailto:li.evan.chao@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     I noticed this while reviewing [1]. _bt_gettrueroot() performs the
>     same metapage checks as _bt_getmeta(), so using _bt_getmeta() here
>     removes the duplicated code.
> 
> 
> It looks good to me. These two code snippets are exactly identical,
> so removing the redundant code is reasonable.
> 
> As can be seen from the contextual comments, this is not a performance- 
> critical path either,
> so we don’t need to worry about the performance overhead caused by 
> function calls.
> 
> I also checked the changes made in commit dd299df, which essentially 
> does the same thing for the function _bt_getrootheight.

Ok, committed.

- Heikki




Commits

  1. Make heap TID a tiebreaker nbtree index column.