Re: bug in pageinspect contrib modul

From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: bug in pageinspect contrib modul
Date: 2008-10-23 10:06:08
Message-ID: 49004C90.3080507@sun.com
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Heikki Linnakangas napsal(a):
> Zdenek Kotala wrote:
>> The following code is in btreefuncs.c function GetBTPageStatistics:
>>
>> stat->max_avail = BLCKSZ - (BLCKSZ - phdr->pd_special +
>> SizeOfPageHeaderData);
>>
>> I think it should be:
>>
>> stat->max_avail = BLCKSZ - (phdr->pd_special + SizeOfPageHeaderData);
>
> Umm, I don't think so. pd_special is the offset to the start of the
> special area, so (BLCKSZ - pd_special) is the size of the special area.
>
> However, that max_avail field actually looks like dead code, anyway.

Yeah, you are right. I forgot that pd_special does not contain size but offset.

Thanks Zdenek

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