Re: [HACKERS] need help in understanding gist function

2007-03-14 Thread Teodor Sigaev
1. What is the functionality of gistplacetopage() function in gist.c ?Can you please give me detail description of this function. It tries to place index tuple on page. If page hasn't enough space, gistplacetopage splits page on two or more pages. Number of page to be splitted depends, basical

[HACKERS] need help in understanding gist function

2007-03-14 Thread sharath kumar
I need help in understanding certain things in gist ... 1. What is the functionality of gistplacetopage() function in gist.c ?Can you please give me detail description of this function. 2. I have left and right buffers with values that I have filled. Now, how do I write these changes(buffers) perm