Re: HOT patch - version 15

Florian Pflug wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> A rather wild idea: Could we maybe pin individual tuples, instead
> of the whole page? Then we'd just have to be careful not to move
> those when pruning during the update.

Uh, that's a huge change. We might be able to keep track of tuples that
we have references to in our own backend, but even that seems like a
non-starter to me.

Yet another idea is to add an "intent" argument (or somehow pass it out
of line) to heap_fetch. You would prune the page in heap_fetch, but only
if you're fetching for the purpose of updating the tuple.

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