On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Gokulakannan Somasundaram < gokul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No, it's far from harmless. As soon as that heap TID gets filled with
>> an unrelated tuple, you run the risk of indexscans alighting on and
>> perhaps modifying the wrong tuple.
>>
>>
> Tom,
i think this will never happen. The only issue is when we need to go
back to the index from heap. This is to update the timestamps of
update/delete.
Gokul.
