Re: HOT patch - version 15

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian  writes:
> > I am thinking we are best just doing the index chain we already have to
> > read.   
> 
> > If you are modifying the table (like with UPDATE) it makes sense to be
> > more aggressive and do the whole page because you know there are
> > probably other table modifications, but for an index lookup there isn't
> > any knowledge of whether the table is being modified so looking at more
> > than we need seems like overkill.
> 
> Uh, why would any of this code at all execute during a pure lookup?

No idea.  It seems an index lookup tries to prune a heap chain, and he
was asking if it should look at other chains on the page;  I said not. 
Whether the index lookup should prune the heap chain is another issue.

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