Re: Heap page diagnostic functions

Sounds good, though I am worried that "forensics" will not be a word
easily understood by non-native English speakers.

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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> I'm taking over Simon's heap page diagnostic functions to get them into
> shape for committing.
>
> I'm thinking of having a new contrib-module for them: pgforensics. All
> the new functions go there, and I'm also going to move bt_page_items,
> bt_page_stats, and bt_metap functions from pgstattuple to the new
> module. They're all low-level functions that no application should be
> calling, so there shouldn't be any compatibility issues in moving them.
>
> That'd leave only the functions that a DBA or tools should be concerned
> with in pgstattuple, and all the low-level debugging aids to the new
> module. Thoughts?
>
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