Re: CREATE INDEX and HOT (was Question: pg_class attributes and race conditions ?)

Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>  > Pavan Deolasee wrote:
>  > We would only need the extra byte in HOT-updated tuples. 
> Alternatively, we could use the bits we have free in infomask2. There's 
> currently 5 bits free, using just 2 or 3 of those would get us quite 
> far. Or just one, which would be the Tom's suggestion of only using HOT 
> for tables with a single index.
>  >
> 
> We've already used three of those, two for tracking HEAP_ONLY
> and HOT_UPDATED tuples and one for tracking fragmented tuple.

HEAP_ONLY_TUPLE would go away in favor of the per-index bits. So we have 
bits available for three indexes.

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