[HACKERS] t_ctid chains

2005-08-18 Thread Paul Tillotson
(Prompted by nearby thread about VACUUM FULL bugs, but not having anything to do with that properly speaking.) Hackers, For some time, I have wondered: what does postgres use t_ctid chains for? It seems like it is useful to find the newer version of a tuple. However, wouldn't that

Re: [HACKERS] t_ctid chains

2005-08-18 Thread Tom Lane
Paul Tillotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For some time, I have wondered: what does postgres use t_ctid chains for? It seems like it is useful to find the newer version of a tuple. However, wouldn't that eventually get found anyway? A sequential scan scans the whole table, and so it will