Re: and it's not a bunny rabbit, either - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: and it's not a bunny rabbit, either
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Msg-id 369.1293652870@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: and it's not a bunny rabbit, either  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: and it's not a bunny rabbit, either  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mié dic 29 16:29:45 -0300 2010:
>> In practice I think it would make sense if heap_open accepts all
>> relation types on which you can potentially do either a heapscan or
>> indexscan (offhand those should be the same set of relkinds, I think;
>> so this is the same in effect as Heikki's proposal, but phrased
>> differently).  So it would have to start rejecting views, and we'd need
>> to go looking for the consequences of that.

> This seems a very good idea, but I think we shouldn't let it sink the
> current patch.

No, but possibly regularizing what heap_open is defined to do would make
Robert's patch simpler.
        regards, tom lane


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