Re: "Value locking" Wiki page

On 1 October 2014 10:44, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:

> I didn't realize that "promise index tuples" were even seriously discussed.
> I guess that can be made to work, too, although I don't see the point. It
> wouldn't work with GiST indexes, for the same reasons as page-level locking
> won't work (a tuple can legally be inserted anywhere in a GiST index - it
> just degrades the index making searching more expensive). And lossy GiST
> opclasses are a problem too.

GiST doesn't support unique indexes, so it is not in any way a problem.

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