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> > > I'm planning to implement a new type of scan,scan by TID.
> > > It's on TODO * Allow WHERE restriction on ctid.
> > > First,I want to define an equal operator between TID.
> >
> > Certainly, or perhaps it would be better to recycle an OID from
> > farther down? We have some open values, and if you only need a few it
> > would work well.
> >
> > You probably already know this, but just in case,
> >
> > cd src/include/catalog
> > ./unused_oids
> >
>
> I didn't know it.
> Thanks.
Oops, no mention of that in the developers FAQ. Let me do that now.
> I would use OIDs for '=' operator between TIDs as follows.
> 387 for = (tid, tid)
> 1292 for tideq(tid, tid)
>
>
> Unfortunately,TIDs are changed by UPDATE operations.
> So we would need some functions in order to get the latest
> TID of a specified tuple such as
> currtid(relationid/name, tid) which returns tid.
> I would provide functions for both relid and relname and
> use 1293-1294 for OIDs of these functions.
>
> Comments ?
> If there's no objection,I would commit them to the current tree.
Sounds good.
>
> Moreover,we would need to know TIDs of inserted tuples.
> What is a reasonable way to do so ?
> 1. Add TID to return_info of INSERT commands.
> 2. Provide a function to get TID of the last inserted tuple
> of the session(backend).
Either sounds good.
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