RE: Performance (was: The New Slashdot Setup (includes MySql server))

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
>
> I wrote:
> > We should just need a switching layer in front of heap_beginscan/
> > index_beginscan and heap_getnext/index_getnext...)
>
> After refreshing my memory of how these are used, it seems that
> we'd have to change the API of either the heap or index scan routines
> in order to unify them like that. Might be worth doing to maintain
> code cleanliness, though. The places Hiroshi has fixed to support
> both index and seq scan look really ugly to my eyes ...
>

Yes,it's ugly unfortunately. So I had hesitated to commit it for
pretty long. There's a trial of unification in my trial implementation
of ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN in command.c.

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp