20.02.2018 12:52, Aleksander Alekseev:
> Hi Anastasia,
>
>> I'd like to propose the patch that fixes the issue.
>> We already have a way to return heaptuple from IndexOnlyScan,
>> but it was not applied to b-tree for some reason.
>>
>> Attached patch solves the reported bug.
>> Moreover, it will come in handy for "index with included attributes" feature
>> [1],
>> where we can store long (and even TOASTed) attributes in indextuple.
>>
>> [1] https://commitfest.postgresql.org/17/1350/
> I believe the patch should include a test that tries to reproduce an
> issue it tries to fix.
>
> Also maybe this code that repeats 3 times can be moved to a separate
> procedure?
Good point. Updated version with test is attached.
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