Re: index_delete_sort: Unnecessary variable "low" is used in heapam.c

> On 5 Nov 2024, at 17:40, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> wrote:
>
> On 2024/09/24 21:31, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>> On 24 Sep 2024, at 10:32, btnakamurakoukil <btnakamurakoukil@oss.nttdata.com> wrote:
>>> I noticed unnecessary variable "low" in index_delete_sort() (/postgres/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c), patch
attached.What do you think? 
>> That variable does indeed seem to not be used, and hasn't been used since it
>> was committed in d168b666823.  The question is if it's a left-over from
>> development which can be removed, or if it should be set and we're missing an
>> optimization.  Having not read the referenced paper I can't tell so adding
>> Peter Geoghegan who wrote this for clarification.
>
> It's been about a month without updates. How about removing the unnecessary
> variable as suggested? We can always add the "missing" logic later if needed.

Thanks for reviving this, I had admittedly forgotten about this thread.  I
don't see any reason to not go ahead with the proposed diff.

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Daniel Gustafsson