Re: [HACKERS] pageinspect and hash indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] pageinspect and hash indexes
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Msg-id ee9bce67-ec70-45b1-b7a2-744890a7b4f0@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to [HACKERS] pageinspect and hash indexes  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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On 3/17/17 13:24, Jeff Janes wrote:
> And isn't it unhelpful to have the pageinspect module throw errors,
> rather than returning a dummy value to indicate there was an error?

Even if one agreed with that premise, it would be hard to satisfy
reliably, because the user-facing pageinspect functions might reach into
lower-level code to do some of the decoding, which are free to error out.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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