"Jeff Davis" <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 22:10 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's a tossup from here. Anybody have a strong opinion one way or the
>> other?
>
> To me a heapscan means "read all the tuples" (without implying order)
> and an ordered heap scan is a special case that should be made explicit.
> But this is not a strong opinion.
I had another thought. Perhaps in use_assert_checking mode we should have it
start from a random position every time. Or perhaps just a random position
from amongst the first n pages.
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