On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 5:46 AM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As far as I understand, it is to ensure that for deleted rows, nothing
>> more needs to be done. For example, see the below check in
>> ExecUpdate/ExecDelete.
>> if (!ItemPointerEquals(tupleid, &hufd.ctid))
>> {
>> ..
>> }
>> ..
>>
>> Also a similar check in ExecLockRows. Now for deleted rows, if the
>> t_ctid wouldn't point to itself, then in the mentioned functions, we
>> were not in a position to conclude that the row is deleted.
>
> Right, so we would have to find all such checks and change them to use
> some other method to conclude that the row is deleted. What method
> would we use?
>
I think before doing above check we can simply check if ctid.ip_blkid
contains InvalidBlockNumber, then return an error.
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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
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