On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> In that case the old value will rather likely just have been read just
> before, so the price of rereading should be relatively low.
Maybe in terms of I/O, but there's still CPU.
> is a rather valid point. I've split the patch accordingly. The second
> patch is *not* supposed to be applied together with patch 1 but rather
> included for reference.
OK, committed patch 1.
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