Re: index-only scans

On 08/11/2011 01:57 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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>> 1. The way that nodeIndexscan.c builds up the faux heap tuple is
>> perhaps susceptible to improvement.  I thought about building a
>> virtual tuple, but then what do I do with an OID column, if I have
>> one?  Or maybe this should be done some other way altogether.
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> Maybe it's time to finally remove the been-deprecated-for-a-while OIDs?

As a user space option certainly. However they are also used to track 
system objects, I don't know that we need to get rid of them for that 
purpose. We just need to remove WITH/WITHOUT OIDS for user tables.

JD
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