On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oracle and postgres are definitely different here.  There's really no
> equivalent to rowid in pgsql.  oid has no special optimizations.  An
> indexed PK of a serial is about as good as it gets, possibly
> clustered.

access by CTID is the fastest it gets.  I use it to do mass updates
after selecting a large number of rows.  I can guarantee nobody else
is modifying those rows so i know it is safe.

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