Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org> writes:
> I don't believe any reasonable client code would have reason to use
> CTIDs though, with the exception of something like the ODBC or JDBC
> drivers.
But that's exactly the use-case --- in fact, we've even got a fair
amount of backend code to make "SELECT ... WHERE ctid = something" fast.
We're not going to decide that that need not work anymore.
regards, tom lane