On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 7:44 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> FWIW I don't see much difference between borrowing special space and
> adding something to BTPageOpaqueData. If anything I'd prefer the
> latter.
I think this discussion will take us too far afield from the topic of
this thread, so I'll just say here that wouldn't solve the problem I
was trying to tackle.
> Here's why: BTMaxItemSizeNoHeapTid() is actually what BTMaxItemSize()
> looked like prior to Postgres 12. So the limit on internal pages never
> changed, even in Postgres 12. There was no separate leaf page limit
> prior to 12. Only the rules on the leaf level ever really changed.
Yeah, I noticed that, too.
Are you going to code up a patch?
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Robert Haas
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