Re: [HACKERS] HOT breaks CLUSTER, a bit

2007-09-12 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Tom Lane wrote: While editing Bruce's README.HOT documentation I ran into a problem. I had idly added the following text after thinking about the different sorts of snapshots we use: --- Another unpleasant consequence is that it is no longer very meaningful to use SnapshotAny in an index

Re: [HACKERS] HOT breaks CLUSTER, a bit

2007-09-12 Thread Tom Lane
Heikki Linnakangas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: BTW, the proposed HOT code in indexam.c that special-cases SnapshotAny is a crock ... It was written under the assumption that all tuples in a HOT chain have the same index key, which isn't true after CREATE INDEX as you pointed

[HACKERS] HOT breaks CLUSTER, a bit

2007-09-11 Thread Tom Lane
While editing Bruce's README.HOT documentation I ran into a problem. I had idly added the following text after thinking about the different sorts of snapshots we use: --- Another unpleasant consequence is that it is no longer very meaningful to use SnapshotAny in an index scan: if the index was