Re: PostgreSQL 8.3 index page count clarification

On 5/26/15 7:55 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 05/26/2015 08:45 AM, Srinivas Karthik V wrote:
>>        For the user created indexes in PostgreSQL 8.3.6, I would like
>> to know which file or function populates the index data structure.
>> Specifically, where in the code is index->tuples and index->pages
>> values are fetched and updated.
>
> 8.3 is long out of support. Please move to a modern supported version of
> PostgreSQL.

If that's not an option your best bet is looking for where that data 
structure is used in code, either via grep or something like 
http://doxygen.postgresql.org/index.html (that doesn't appear to support 
anything but HEAD, but I know there's other sites out there that provide 
similar tools for our code.)
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