Re: pgsql: Make heap TID a tiebreaker nbtree index column.

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 8:17 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Actually, I'm not sure why it would be fine to revert 7d3bf73ac now.
> > Might the problem actually be the order in which OIDs are originally
> > assigned, or something like that?
>
> No, because then things would have been unstable before, no?

Perhaps. The cost of being wrong here is trivial anyway. I have
reverted 7d3bf73ac based on the assumption that it's now unnecessary.

> I actually think that we should remove most or all of the
> cascade-drop-hiding hacks that are in the regression tests now,
> not only that one.  They should not be necessary any more, and
> they might be hiding things we need to know about, now or in
> the future.  But I haven't got round to it.

Seems like a useful goal.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan