Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] pageinspect function to decode infomasks

Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>

From: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2019-09-05T08:36:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:41 AM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 04:50:45PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > According to CFbot, the Windows build fails with this patch.  Please
> > fix.
>
> To save a couple of clicks:
> "C:\projects\postgresql\pageinspect.vcxproj" (default target) (56) ->
> (Link target) ->
>   heapfuncs.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
>   pg_popcount32 [C:\projects\postgresql\pageinspect.vcxproj]
>     .\Release\pageinspect\pageinspect.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 1
>     unresolved externals [C:\projects\postgresql\pageinspect.vcxproj]
>
> I think that it would be more simple to just use pg_popcount().
> That's what other contrib modules do (for example ltree or intarray).

Thanks. I hope the attached new patch fixes this issue.

Regards,

--
Masahiko Sawada
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

Commits

  1. Redesign pageinspect function printing infomask bits

  2. Add to pageinspect function to make t_infomask/t_infomask2 human-readable

  3. Improve documentation of pageinspect

  4. Improve pageinspect module