On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 7:55 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I don't think this is actually a good idea. What it is is a foot-gun, > because if anyone adds code there that wants to access the special area > of that particular page, it'll do the wrong thing, unless they remember > to put back the assignment of "opaque". The sequence of BufferGetPage() > and PageGetSpecialPointer() is a very standard switch-our-attention- > to-another-page locution in nbtree and other index AMs.
+1 -- Peter Geoghegan
