Thank you for the reply Robert. I think I am getting the idea about reading buffers but I am confused about the writing part, can you give me a function name where it does some write operations like creating a table or inserting a tuple for me read as a example.
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 11:33:59 -0400
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Function call hierarchy/path since getting the buffer until access its data
> From: robertmhaas@gmail.com
> To: fighter2929@hotmail.com
> CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
>
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Waldecir Faria <fighter2929@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Good morning, I am doing a study about buffer management to improve the
> > performance of one program that does heavy I/O operations. After looking and
> > reading from different softwares' source codes/texts one friend suggested me
> > to take a look at the PostgreSQL code. I already took a look at the
> > PostgreSQL buffer management modules ( freelist.c and cia ) but now I am a
> > bit confused how the buffer read/write works, I tried to see how PostgreSQL
> > does to get, for example, a char array from one buffer. Looking at rawpage.c
> > I think that I found a good example using the following function calls
> > sequence starting at function get_raw_page_internal():
> >
> > StrategyGetBuffer->BufferAlloc->ReadBuffer_Common
> > ->ReadBufferExtended->BufferGetPage-> memcpy page to buf
>
> BufferGetPage() doesn't copy anything; it just takes the buffer number
> and returns a pointer to the address of that buffer in memory. More
> generally, that whole chain of function calls has to do with how a
> page ends up inside PostgreSQL's buffer cache, not with how anything
> on the page is actually decoded. Each buffer contains zero or more
> tuples; each tuple contains multiple attributes. So after you get the
> buffer you have to iterate over the tuples and then decode each tuple
> to get the values that you want.
>
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