Re: [PATCH] pageinspect function to decode infomasks

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 14 September 2017 at 19:57, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu(dot)coek88(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Are you planning to work on the review comments from Robert, Moon
>> Insung and supply the new patch. I just had a quick glance into this
>> mail thread (after a long time) and could understand Robert's concern
>> till some extent. I think, he is trying to say that if a tuple is
>> frozen (committed|invalid) then it shouldn't be shown as COMMITTED and
>> INVALID together in fact it should just be displayed as FROZEN tuple.
>
>
> Yes, I'd like to, and should have time for it in this CF.
>
> My plan is to emit raw flags by default, so FROZEN would't be shown at all,
> only COMMITTED|INVALID. If the bool to decode combined flags is set, then
> it'll show things like FROZEN, and hide COMMITTED|INVALID. Similar for other
> combos.
>

FWIW, I agree with this direction. ISTM the showing the raw flags by
default and having an option to show combined flags would be a right
way.
I sometimes wanted to have the same mechanism for lp_flags but maybe
it should be discussed on a separated thread.

Regards,

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