On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> I would actually suggest ditching the normal page layout with line
>> pointers and IndexTuples altogether.
>
> It would be a bad idea to remove the page header. You need the LSN
> (someday hash indexes will obey WAL logging), and removing the page
> version number seems pretty imprudent also. I'd be inclined to
> stick with the regular header and the existing "special space"
> definition. But yeah, what's in between need not necessarily be
> regular tuples.
Agreed.
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