Tom Lane wrote:
> Given that RC freeze is nearly upon us for 8.4, and that we need a
> reasonably non-invasive fix for 8.3 anyway, I propose that for now
> we just deal with the syncscan issue by tweaking heap_rescan so that
> rs_startblock doesn't get changed. It looks like that's about a
> three-line patch. The question of how cursors should behave with
> respect to volatile functions can be documented and left for another
> time.
>
Sounds like a good approach.
Mark