Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 8 January 2016 at 13:36, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > I would agree except for the observation on toast indexes. I think
> > that's an important enough use case that perhaps we should have both.
>
> The exclusion of toast indexes is something we can remove also, I have
> recently discovered. When we access toast data we ignore MVCC, but we still
> have the toast pointer and chunkid to use for rechecking our scan results.
> So a later patch will add some rechecks.
Ah, interesting, glad to hear. I take it you're pushing your patch
soon, then?
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