On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> Simon objected that putting the PK
>> into the index tuple would disable HOT, but I don't think that's a
>> valid objection.
>
> Just to be clear, that's not what I objected to. Claudio appeared to
> be suggesting that an indirect index is the same thing as an index
> with PK tacked onto the end, which I re-confirm is not the case since
> doing that would not provide the primary objective of indirect
> indexes.
No, I was suggesting using the storage format of those indexes.
Perhaps I wasn't clear.
CREATE INDEX could be implemented entirely as the rewrite I mention, I
believe. But everything else can't, as you say.
