Re: pageinspect: Hash index support

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-02-09T19:36:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think you should just tighten up the sanity checking in the existing
>> function _hash_ovflblkno_to_bitno rather than duplicating the code.  I
>> don't think it's called often enough for one extra (cheap) test to be
>> an issue.  (You should change the elog in that function to an ereport,
>> too, since it's going to be a user-facing error message now.)
>
> okay, I have taken care of above two points in the attached patch. Thanks.

Alright, committed with a little further hacking.  That would rejected
using hash_bitmap_info() on primary bucket pages and the metapage, but
not on bitmap pages, which seems weird.  So I fixed that and pushed
this.

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Robert Haas
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Commits

  1. Fix incorrect typecast.

  2. In pageinspect/hashfuncs.c, avoid crashes on alignment-picky machines.

  3. pageinspect: Support hash indexes.

  4. Add uuid to the set of types supported by contrib/btree_gist.

  5. Allow CREATE EXTENSION to follow extension update paths.