Re: Index-only-scans, indexam API changes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Index-only-scans, indexam API changes
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Msg-id 22904.1247494729@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Index-only-scans, indexam API changes  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Index-only-scans, indexam API changes  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> At the moment, amgettuple only returns pointers to heap tuples. There is
> no way to return data from the index tuples. That needs to be changed to
> support index-only scans.

What are you going to do for index types that don't store the original
data (e.g. hash)?
        regards, tom lane


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