On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 4:38 AM Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, I think we should definately support more line pointers on a > heap page, but abusing MaxHeapTuplesPerPage for that is misleading: > the current value is the physical limit for heap tuples, as we have at > most 1 heap tuple per line pointer and thus the MaxHeapTuplesPerPage > won't change. A macro MaxHeapLinePointersPerPage would probably be > more useful, which could be as follows (assuming we don't want to > allow filling a page with effectively only dead line pointers):
That's a good point. Sounds like it might be the right approach. I suppose that it will depend on how much use of MaxHeapTuplesPerPage remains once it is split in two like this. -- Peter Geoghegan
