On Feb 17, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Suresh wrote:
[ "include/access/relscan.h" ]
In IndexScanDescData, whats the purpose of having two Relation variables.
typedef struct IndexScanDescData
{
Relation heapRelation; /* heap relation descriptor, or NULL */
Relation indexRelation; /* index relation descriptor */
....
...
}IndexScanDescData;
The index does not contain the entire tuple. If you index column A the index will not contain values in column B of the same table.
Thus, if you find a record in the index one of the things which have to be done is to get the record from disk to check visibility and other columns.
best regards,
hans-juergen schoenig
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