Re: [PATCH] pageinspect function to decode infomasks

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pageinspect function to decode infomasks
Date: 2017-10-17 00:20:52
Message-ID: CAH2-Wz=rQ91R+yae1N-Th2Nz6G_3zRMUL2O73vDKxDR5HA4dhA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
> I am working on an experimental version of pg_filedump, customized to
> output XML that can be interpreted by an open source hex editor. The
> XML makes the hex editor produce color coded, commented
> tags/annotations for any given heap or B-Tree relation. This includes
> tooltips with literal values for all status bits (including
> t_infomask/t_infomask2 bits, IndexTuple bits, B-Tree meta page status
> bits, PD_* page-level bits, ItemId bits, and others).

This is now available from: https://github.com/petergeoghegan/pg_hexedit

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Peter Geoghegan

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