Re: [DOCS] The number of bytes is stored in index_size of pgstatindex() ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: [DOCS] The number of bytes is stored in index_size of pgstatindex() ?
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In response to Re: [DOCS] The number of bytes is stored in index_size of pgstatindex() ?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> But those pages are supposed to be used as the index grows.  So unless
> they are forgotten by the FSM, they shouldn't accumulate.  (Except where
> the table doesn't grow but only shrinks, so there's no need for new
> index pages, but I don't think that's an interesting case.)

Sure. I'm talking about a narrow issue around how things are
represented in pgstatindex() only.

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Peter Geoghegan


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