Re: Allow pageinspect's bt_page_stats function to return a set of rows instead of a single row - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Drouvot, Bertrand
Subject Re: Allow pageinspect's bt_page_stats function to return a set of rows instead of a single row
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Msg-id 477be374-f020-aa88-78c3-dd594d0863cf@amazon.com
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In response to Re: Allow pageinspect's bt_page_stats function to return a set of rows instead of a single row  (Hamid Akhtar <hamid.akhtar@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Allow pageinspect's bt_page_stats function to return a set of rows instead of a single row
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Hi,

On 6/30/22 10:24 AM, Hamid Akhtar wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 at 15:52, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 1:40 PM Drouvot, Bertrand <bdrouvot@amazon.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On 6/27/22 9:31 AM, Hamid Akhtar wrote:
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> Hello Hackers,
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> While working on one of my blogs on the B-Tree indexes, I needed to look at a range of B-Tree page statistics. So the goto solution was to use pageinspect. However, reviewing stats for multiple pages meant issuing multiple queries.

+1 to improve the API.

I think it makes sense too.

But what about the other pageinspect's functions that also use a single blkno as parameter? Should not the patch also takes care of them?

Regards,

Bertrand

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