Re: [DOCS] The number of bytes is stored in index_size of pgstatindex() ?

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 大塚憲司 <otsuka(dot)kenji(at)nttcom(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] The number of bytes is stored in index_size of pgstatindex() ?
Date: 2016-02-19 20:07:47
Message-ID: CAM3SWZQc3+Tk-xF-BkN2CwS-3OEuZMgCwQePJcDY3+yWbbcr5A@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> But those pages are supposed to be used as the index grows. So unless
> they are forgotten by the FSM, they shouldn't accumulate. (Except where
> the table doesn't grow but only shrinks, so there's no need for new
> index pages, but I don't think that's an interesting case.)

Sure. I'm talking about a narrow issue around how things are
represented in pgstatindex() only.

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Peter Geoghegan

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