"Jeff Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 22:10 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> It's a tossup from here. Anybody have a strong opinion one way or the >> other? > > To me a heapscan means "read all the tuples" (without implying order) > and an ordered heap scan is a special case that should be made explicit. > But this is not a strong opinion.
I had another thought. Perhaps in use_assert_checking mode we should have it start from a random position every time. Or perhaps just a random position from amongst the first n pages. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's On-Demand Production Tuning ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
