Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> where "kill the index entry" involves informing the index AM that it can
>> somehow mark the index entry uninteresting and not to be returned at all
>> during future indexscans.
> Is this a step toward being able to VACUUM indexes?
You
Tom Lane wrote:
> where "kill the index entry" involves informing the index AM that it can
> somehow mark the index entry uninteresting and not to be returned at all
> during future indexscans. (For performance reasons this'll probably get
> merged into the next "get next index tuple" operation,
As I mentioned in passing awhile ago, I'm thinking of simplifying the
indexscan API and arranging for heapscans and indexscans to have
essentially identical APIs. Here's the plan:
heap_beginscan and index_beginscan will have near-identical signatures:
HeapScanDesc heap_beginscan(Relation relati
