Pavan Deolasee wrote:
One assumption I am making here is that its sufficient to mark the line
pointer
"unused" (reset LP_USED flag) even though there is an index entry pointing
to
the tuple. During index scan, we anyways check for ItemIdIsUsed() before
proceeding further. I know it might break the ctid chain, but does that
really
matter ? I don't see any reason why somebody would need to follow ctid
chain
past a dead tuple.
You can't clear the LP_USED flag, but you could use the LP_DELETE flag
that's currently not used in heap pages.
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