Re: Indexscan API cleanup proposal - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: Indexscan API cleanup proposal
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Msg-id 3CE82A77.4090501@joeconway.com
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In response to Indexscan API cleanup proposal  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Indexscan API cleanup proposal  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> where "kill the index entry" involves informing the index AM that it can
> somehow mark the index entry uninteresting and not to be returned at all
> during future indexscans.  (For performance reasons this'll probably get
> merged into the next "get next index tuple" operation, but that remains
> to be designed in detail.)
> 
> Comments?
> 

Is this a step toward being able to VACUUM indexes?

Joe





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