-- 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)); lsn | nsn | rightlink | flags -----+-----+------------+------- 0/1 | 0/0 | 4294967295 | {} (1 row) SELECT * FROM gist_page_opaque_info(get_raw_page('test_gist_idx', 1)); lsn | nsn | rightlink | flags -----+-----+------------+-------- 0/1 | 0/0 | 4294967295 | {leaf} (1 row) SELECT * FROM gist_page_opaque_info(get_raw_page('test_gist_idx', 2)); lsn | nsn | rightlink | flags -----+-----+-----------+-------- 0/1 | 0/0 | 1 | {leaf} (1 row) COMMIT; SELECT * FROM gist_page_items(get_raw_page('test_gist_idx', 0), 'test_gist_idx'); itemoffset | ctid | itemlen | dead | keys ------------+-----------+---------+------+------------------- 1 | (1,65535) | 40 | f | (p)=((166,166)) 2 | (2,65535) | 40 | f | (p)=((332,332)) 3 | (3,65535) | 40 | f | (p)=((498,498)) 4 | (4,65535) | 40 | f | (p)=((664,664)) 5 | (5,65535) | 40 | f | (p)=((830,830)) 6 | (6,65535) | 40 | f | (p)=((996,996)) 7 | (7,65535) | 40 | f | (p)=((1000,1000)) (7 rows) SELECT * FROM gist_page_items(get_raw_page('test_gist_idx', 1), 'test_gist_idx') LIMIT 5; itemoffset | ctid | itemlen | dead | keys ------------+-------+---------+------+------------- 1 | (0,1) | 40 | f | (p)=((1,1)) 2 | (0,2) | 40 | f | (p)=((2,2)) 3 | (0,3) | 40 | f | (p)=((3,3)) 4 | (0,4) | 40 | f | (p)=((4,4)) 5 | (0,5) | 40 | f | (p)=((5,5)) (5 rows) -- 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)); itemoffset | ctid | itemlen ------------+-----------+--------- 1 | (1,65535) | 40 2 | (2,65535) | 40 3 | (3,65535) | 40 4 | (4,65535) | 40 5 | (5,65535) | 40 6 | (6,65535) | 40 7 | (7,65535) | 40 (7 rows) DROP TABLE test_gist;