Re: GIN pageinspect support for entry tree and posting tree

> On 4 Jan 2026, at 00:25, Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> PFA v6

Would it be theoretically possible to unite functions for different GIN page types?
e.g. merge gin_entrypage_items + gin_datapage_items -> gin_tree_items? Or is it an awkward API?

The patch adds whitespace errors.
x4mmm@x4mmm-osx postgres % git am ~/Downloads/v6-0001-GIN-pageinspect-support-for-entry-tree-and-postin.patch
Applying: GIN pageinspect support for entry tree and posting tree internal pages
.git/rebase-apply/patch:236: trailing whitespace.
.git/rebase-apply/patch:242: trailing whitespace.
.git/rebase-apply/patch:243: trailing whitespace.
.git/rebase-apply/patch:249: trailing whitespace.
.git/rebase-apply/patch:284: trailing whitespace.
warning: squelched 8 whitespace errors
warning: 13 lines add whitespace errors.

Docs build fail [0]:
[08:01:48.343] pageinspect.sgml:775: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: varlistentry line 722 and
variablelist
[08:01:48.343] </variablelist>
[08:01:48.343] ^
[08:01:48.343] pageinspect.sgml:776: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: variablelist line 637 and sect2
[08:01:48.343] </sect2>
[08:01:48.343] ^
[08:01:48.343] pageinspect.sgml:1016: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: sect2 line 634 and sect1
[08:01:48.343] </sect1>
[08:01:48.343] ^
[08:01:48.343] pageinspect.sgml:1017: parser error : Premature end of data in tag sect1 line 3
[08:01:48.343]
[08:01:48.343] ^
[08:01:48.343] pageinspect.sgml:1017: parser error : chunk is not well balanced
[08:01:48.343]
[08:01:48.343] ^
[08:01:48.343] contrib.sgml:152: parser error : Entity 'pageinspect' failed to parse
[08:01:48.343] &pageinspect;
[08:01:48.343] ^
[08:01:48.343] contrib.sgml:239: parser error : chunk is not well balanced
[08:01:48.343]
[08:01:48.343] ^
[08:01:48.344] postgres.sgml:279: parser error : Entity 'contrib' failed to parse
[08:01:48.344] &contrib;

And 32-bit build fail [1]:
 SELECT * FROM gin_entrypage_items(get_raw_page('test1_y_idx', 1), 'test1_y_idx'::regclass);
-[ RECORD 1 ]--------------
itemoffset | 1
-downlink | (2147483664,1)
+downlink | (2147483660,1)
tids | {"(0,1)"}
keys | y=11
-[ RECORD 2 ]--------------
itemoffset | 2
-downlink | (2147483664,1)
+downlink | (2147483660,1)
tids | {"(0,1)"}
keys | y=111


Thanks!


Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

[0] https://github.com/x4m/postgres_g/runs/59444268144
[1] https://cirrus-ci.com/task/6255878661210112