-- The gist_page_opaque_info() function prints the page's LSN. Normally, -- that's constant 1 (GistBuildLSN) on every page of a freshly built GiST -- index. But with wal_level=minimal, the whole relation is dumped to WAL at -- the end of the transaction if it's smaller than wal_skip_threshold, which -- updates the LSNs. Wrap the tests on gist_page_opaque_info() in the -- same transaction with the CREATE INDEX so that we see the LSNs before -- they are possibly overwritten at end of transaction. BEGIN; -- Create a test table and GiST index. CREATE TABLE test_gist AS SELECT point(i,i) p, i::text t FROM generate_series(1,1000) i; CREATE INDEX test_gist_idx ON test_gist USING gist (p); -- Page 0 is the root, the rest are leaf pages SELECT * FROM gist_page_opaque_info(get_raw_page('test_gist_idx', 0)); SELECT * FROM gist_page_opaque_info(get_raw_page('test_gist_idx', 1)); SELECT * FROM gist_page_opaque_info(get_raw_page('test_gist_idx', 2)); COMMIT; SELECT * FROM gist_page_items(get_raw_page('test_gist_idx', 0), 'test_gist_idx'); SELECT * FROM gist_page_items(get_raw_page('test_gist_idx', 1), 'test_gist_idx') LIMIT 5; -- gist_page_items_bytea prints the raw key data as a bytea. The output of that is -- platform-dependent (endianess), so omit the actual key data from the output. SELECT itemoffset, ctid, itemlen FROM gist_page_items_bytea(get_raw_page('test_gist_idx', 0)); DROP TABLE test_gist;