> When you will decide - to implement or not to implement,
> I urge you to think again about the relief on optimizer,
> which I stressed many times. No one rebutted yet that adding
> brains to optimizer so that it can use appropriate join method
> will require major rewrite. With links you get the best join
> method as side effect - virtually for free. These joins
> will never be too slow for an unknown reason. Think carefully.
> I hope you will make wise decision.
I believe Ingres does allow this, as it has tid's too. If you are
creating a temp table, you could use tids during your processing. In
fact, it seems tids would be valid until a vacuum is performed.
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