Re: Re: Fixes to index pages - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> The patch never intended to increase the index tuple length.  It was
> only to better document how IndexTupleData is used.  Both Tom and I
> agreed that the use of bits/contants/macros in itup.h was not idea, and
> needed a little cleaning.  That's all the patch does.

The original version of the patch commandeered an extra bit for tuple
length.  If you back off INDEX_SIZE_MASK to 1FFF, and document bit
13 as unused/reserved, then it's just a cleanup.

            regards, tom lane