Re: Setting pd_lower in GIN metapage

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Setting pd_lower in GIN metapage
Date: 2017-09-14 10:47:37
Message-ID: CAB7nPqRrAjTt31zYV4NX1g=-KhttrhdKyiC=1=sS6K7QNEUNWQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Why do we need to change metapage at every place for btree ...

I have been hunting for some time places where meta buffers were
marked as dirtied and logged. So in the effort, I think that my hands
and mind got hotter, forgetting that pd_lower is set there for ages.
Of course feel free to ignore that.

> ... or hash?
> Any index that is upgraded should have pd_lower set, do you have any
> case in mind where it won't be set? For hash, if someone upgrades
> from a version lower than 9.6, it might not have set, but we already
> give warning to reindex the hash indexes upgraded from a version lower
> than 10.

Ah yes. You do set pd_lower in 10 as well for hash... So that will be
fine. So remains SpGist as a slacking AM based on the current patches.
--
Michael

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