Re: ctid access is slow

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 15:55, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:02:05PM +0400, Ilja Golshtein wrote:
> > The only thing I am curios is ctid good for anything from user point
> > of view?
>
> No -- it changes far too frequently for that.

Oh I dunno... In general I'd agree with you, but I've seen a couple of (some
would say hackey) use cases where you use the ctid to iterate over the
columns returned in a row in a plpgsql function...  :-)

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