Re: [HACKERS] UPDATE of partition key

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 5:46 AM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I understand, it is to ensure that for deleted rows, nothing
> more needs to be done.  For example, see the below check in
> ExecUpdate/ExecDelete.
> if (!ItemPointerEquals(tupleid, &hufd.ctid))
> {
> ..
> }
> ..
>
> Also a similar check in ExecLockRows.  Now for deleted rows, if the
> t_ctid wouldn't point to itself, then in the mentioned functions, we
> were not in a position to conclude that the row is deleted.

Right, so we would have to find all such checks and change them to use
some other method to conclude that the row is deleted.  What method
would we use?

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