Re: More guidance on ctid

On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 11:49:37AM +0000, Bernice Southey wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > What I did do was to explain why ctid was safe in this
> > use-case.  I also strengthened the documentation that ctid is not valid
> > for row references.
> I like this, explaining the risk is much better. I couldn't think of a
> simple way to do it.

Great.

> There was a strong preference for not duplicating the explanatory text
> when the examples were added. Perhaps delete doesn't need the new
> line?

Uh, where did you see that?  I found the original thread and I don't see
any mention of a warning, or not wanting a warning:

    https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CADkLM%3DcaNEQsUwPWnfi2jR4ix99E0EJM_3jtcE-YjnEQC7Rssw%40mail.gmail.com

I feel we need a warning specifically because people will find this
query, particularly in the very visible UPDATE/DELETE man pages, and not
realize ctid only has a few save use-cases.

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