* Alvaro Herrera (alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: > But in a > SELECT, the effect is only that you will have to skip less dead tuples, > which is not as exciting.
Agreed. There's also the option to have it be done based on some expectation of future work- that is, if we have to traverse X number of dead tuples during a select, then don't bother with HOT pruning, but if we get up to X+Y dead tuples, then do HOT pruning. That said, I'm not entirely convinced that traversing these dead tuples is all *that* painful during SELECT. If there's that many levels then hopefully it's not long til an UPDATE comes along and cleans them up. Thanks, Stephen
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