| From: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> |
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| To: | Floris Van Nee <florisvannee(at)optiver(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jesper Pedersen <jesper(dot)pedersen(at)redhat(dot)com>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, James Coleman <jtc331(at)gmail(dot)com>, Rafia Sabih <rafia(dot)pghackers(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bhushan Uparkar <bhushan(dot)uparkar(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> |
| Subject: | Re: Index Skip Scan |
| Date: | 2020-01-22 19:09:35 |
| Message-ID: | CAH2-Wzm0kLCdnM7rh8MC225E6befVYFTdHGv7-LgKXk32mTXsg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:55 AM Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
> This is a good summary. This is the kind of scenario I had in mind
> when I expressed a general concern about "stopping between pages".
> Processing a whole page at a time is a crucial part of how
> _bt_readpage() currently deals with concurrent page splits.
Note in particular that index scans cannot return the same index tuple
twice -- processing a page at a time ensures that that cannot happen.
Can a loose index scan return the same tuple (i.e. a tuple with the
same heap TID) to the executor more than once?
--
Peter Geoghegan
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