Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> The thing is, physical index numbers has meaning, the logical index
> number does not. In a view definition we're going to store the physical
> index, not the logical one, for example.
Really? To me that's one of a large number of questions that are
unresolved about how we'd do this. You can make a case for either
choice in quite a number of places.
regards, tom lane