On Dec20, 2010, at 07:16 , Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 19.12.2010 20:57, Florian Pflug wrote:
>> If we reuse the legacy field xvac to store xlast, we don't get into
>> trouble with binary upgrades either. We' need to find a way to deal
>> with tuples where HEAP_MOVED_IN or HEAP_MOVED_OUT is set, but that
>> seems manageable..
> 
> xvac shares the field with command id, and cid is in use while the tuple is 
> being updated.

Right :-(

Well, that nails this coffin shut pretty tightly, unless we were willing to add
another field to heap tuples.

best regards,
Florian Pflug


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