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Add commentary explaining why MaxIndexTuplesPerPage calculation is safe.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 16:33:15 +0000 (12:33 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 16:33:15 +0000 (12:33 -0400)
commit2a67d6440db4360efff2078a05bc172ca8f34b2b
tree03ea3f0c673cd5fc1f921e013ab84e54624e9254
parente013288a6509549866c5d531257480f159c6900d
Add commentary explaining why MaxIndexTuplesPerPage calculation is safe.

MaxIndexTuplesPerPage ignores the fact that btree indexes sometimes
store tuples with no data payload.  But it also ignores the possibility
of "special space" on index pages, which offsets that, so that the
result isn't an underestimate.  This all seems worth documenting, though.

In passing, remove #define MinIndexTupleSize, which was added by
commit 2c03216d8 but not used in that commit nor later ones.

Comment text by me; issue noticed by Peter Geoghegan.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkQmb54Kbx-YHXstRKXcNc+_87jwV3DRb54xcybLR7Oig@mail.gmail.com
src/include/access/itup.h