Re: HOT for PostgreSQL 8.3

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 13:39 +0000, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > ISTM we could fix that by extending the index VACUUM interface to
> > include two concepts: aside from "remove these TIDs when you find them",
> > there could be "replace these TIDs with those TIDs when you find them".
> > This would allow pointer-swinging to one of the child tuples, after
> > which the old root could be removed.  
> 
> Implementing the "replace these TIDs" operation atomically would be 
> simple, except for the new bitmap index am. It should be possible there 
> as well, but if the old and new tid happen to be on a different bitmap 
> page, it requires some care to avoid deadlocks.

Grouped Item Indexes cope with this easily also, yes?

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