Re: Synchronized scans

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:05 +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> BTW: Should we do the synchronization in the non-page-at-a-time mode?
> It's not many lines of code to do so, but IIRC that codepath is only
> used for catalog access. System tables really shouldn't grow that big,
> and if they do we shouldn't be doing seq scans for them anyway. Does the
> unstable ordering confuse any catalog accesses?

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01199.php

There is a very minor assumption there that scans on pg_class will
return in the same order. I'm not sure if that's even a problem.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis