Re: Making all nbtree entries unique by having heap TIDs participatein comparisons

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 6:16 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> Thanks. Looks like I should have used PG_INT32_MAX.

Attached is v9, which does things that way. There are no interesting
changes, though I have set things up so that a later patch in the
series can add "dynamic prefix truncation" -- I do not include any
such patch in v9, though. I'm going to start a new thread on that
topic, and include the patch there, since it's largely unrelated to
this work, and in any case still isn't in scope for Postgres 12 (the
patch is still experimental, for reasons that are of general
interest). If nothing else, Andrey and Peter E. will probably get a
better idea of why I thought that an insertion scan key was a good
place to put mutable state if they go read that other thread -- there
really was a bigger picture to setting things up that way.

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Peter Geoghegan