> I believe the ODBC driver uses CTID for this sort of problem.  CTID is
> guaranteed to exist and to be fast to access (since it's a physical
> locator).  Against this you have the problem that concurrent updates
> of the record will move it, leaving your CTID invalid.  However, that

IIRC the ctid access follows the chain up to the currently valid 
tuple ? I thought the only enemy of ctid access was "vacuum" ?

Andreas

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