Re: pgsql: tableam: Add helper for indexes to check if a corresponding tabl

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: pgsql-committers <pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql: tableam: Add helper for indexes to check if a corresponding tabl
Date: 2019-03-26 01:00:47
Message-ID: 20190326010047.67hyjwabwcan7pd4@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2019-03-25 17:47:17 -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 5:34 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > tableam: Add helper for indexes to check if a corresponding table tuples exist.
> >
> > This is, likely exclusively, useful to verify that conflicts detected
> > in a unique index are with live tuples, rather than dead ones.
>
> Any reason why you didn't remove the heap_hot_search() wrapper
> function entirely?

Hm. Fair question. I guess if there's any potential external users of
it, they'd likely need to make v12 adjustments anyway?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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