Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Actually, I'm going to *insist* that we lose the index AM scan >> altogether.
> Except that the "inessential" feature in question is a feature that > currently WORKS, and I don't believe that the testing you've done is > anywhere near sufficient to show that no one will be upset if it goes > away. What feature is that --- the ability to get an undefined subset of rows quickly by using LIMIT without ORDER BY? Not much of a feature. > Without some convincing evidence to support that proposition, I > think it would be better to postpone the whole patch to 8.5 and use > that time to fix the problem, Wouldn't bother me any. We are way overdue for 8.4 already. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers