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Re: pageinspect and hash indexes

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-03-17T20:08:32Z
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On 3/17/17 13:24, Jeff Janes wrote:
> And isn't it unhelpful to have the pageinspect module throw errors,
> rather than returning a dummy value to indicate there was an error?

Even if one agreed with that premise, it would be hard to satisfy
reliably, because the user-facing pageinspect functions might reach into
lower-level code to do some of the decoding, which are free to error out.

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Commits

  1. Fix pageinspect failures on hash indexes.