Tom Lane wrote: > Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> While looking at the HOT patch, I noticed that if there's an index tuple >> pointing to a non-existing heap tuple, we just silently ignore it. > > This is intentional --- consider case where VACUUM has removed both > index and heap entries while some other (amazingly slow...) process is > in flight from the index to the heap.
Hmm. In b-tree we keep the index page pinned while we do the heap fetch to avoid that, but apparently we don't have that interlock in other indexams. Ok, never mind. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
