Re: AW: [HACKERS] Fwd: Joins and links

From: Vadim Mikheev <vadim(at)krs(dot)ru>
To: Zeugswetter Andreas IZ5 <Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)telecom(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: AW: [HACKERS] Fwd: Joins and links
Date: 1999-07-06 11:26:18
Message-ID: 3781E7DA.2F66A759@krs.ru
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Zeugswetter Andreas IZ5 wrote:
>
> I think the best compromise would be to have ctid in the where clause.

And we told about this a days ago, but no one did it.

> This would need to always be considered as best path by the optimizer.
> Then the situation is similar to a primary key foreign key scenario.
>
> The referenced table does not need an index, since we know the physical
> position of the row we want (where ctid='(5,255)').
>
> What we need second is an update trigger for the referenced table that
> updates old.ctid to new.ctid in the referencing table. For this to be

Triggers are not fired by vacuum...

Vadim

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