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Re: [PATCH] pageinspect function to decode infomasks

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-10-17T00:20:52Z
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On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> I am working on an experimental version of pg_filedump, customized to
> output XML that can be interpreted by an open source hex editor. The
> XML makes the hex editor produce color coded, commented
> tags/annotations for any given heap or B-Tree relation. This includes
> tooltips with literal values for all status bits (including
> t_infomask/t_infomask2 bits, IndexTuple bits, B-Tree meta page status
> bits, PD_* page-level bits, ItemId bits, and others).

This is now available from: https://github.com/petergeoghegan/pg_hexedit

-- 
Peter Geoghegan

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