what's the meaning of key? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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I'm doing research on heap_am, and for heap_beginscan func, I find
out that there is a arg called nkeys, I use some sqls as examples like 
'select * from t;' and 'select * from t where a  = 1', but it is always zero,
can you give me some descriptions for this? what's it used for? 

jacktby@gmail.com

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