While looking into a btree internal page using pg_filedump against an
int4 index generated pgbench, I noticed that only item 2 has length 8,
which indicates that the index tuple has only tuple header and has no
index data. In my understanding this indicates that the item is used
to represent a down link to a page. Question is, why the item is 2,
not 1. I thought an index tuple indicating down link is always 1. Is
this a sign that something goes wrong?
Block 3 ********************************************************
<Header> -----Block Offset: 0x00006000 Offsets: Lower 1164 (0x048c)Block: Size 8192 Version 4
Upper 3624 (0x0e28)LSN: logid 2 recoff 0x1550a608 Special 8176 (0x1ff0)Items: 285
FreeSpace: 2460Checksum: 0x0000 Prune XID: 0x00000000 Flags: 0x0000 ()Length (including item array): 1164
<Data> ------ Item 1 -- Length: 16 Offset: 3624 (0x0e28) Flags: NORMALItem 2 -- Length: 8 Offset: 8168
(0x1fe8) Flags: NORMALItem 3 -- Length: 16 Offset: 8152 (0x1fd8) Flags: NORMALItem 4 -- Length: 16 Offset:
8136(0x1fc8) Flags: NORMALItem 5 -- Length: 16 Offset: 8120 (0x1fb8) Flags: NORMAL
[snip]Item 281 -- Length: 16 Offset: 3704 (0x0e78) Flags: NORMALItem 282 -- Length: 16 Offset: 3688 (0x0e68)
Flags:NORMALItem 283 -- Length: 16 Offset: 3672 (0x0e58) Flags: NORMALItem 284 -- Length: 16 Offset: 3656
(0x0e48) Flags: NORMALItem 285 -- Length: 16 Offset: 3640 (0x0e38) Flags: NORMAL
<Special Section> -----BTree Index Section: Flags: 0x0000 () Blocks: Previous (0) Next (289) Level (1) CycleId (0)
Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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