On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Well, you can obviously check the catalogs for that, but you must be > assuming that you don't have access to the catalogs or this would be a > non-issue. > > You can also identify the kind of page by looking at the special area of the > stored page. See: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-04/msg00392.php How does that work with different forks? I think its very ugly to mark all sorts of different pages as if they were heap pages when they clearly aren't. I don't recall anything so ugly being allowed anywhere else in the system. Why is it *needed* here? -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
