tid scan - is it ever used? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From murphy pope
Subject tid scan - is it ever used?
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Responses Re: tid scan - is it ever used?  (Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>)
how to remove columns from a table  (Fabricio Boppre <fabricio@gprog.com.br>)
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I realize this might be "hackers" question, but I was wondering if anyone
has ever seen a "tid scan" in a query plan?

I think a tid scan would only be used if you did something like:

  select ctid from mytable;

are there any other uses for a tid scan?

  -- Thanks, Murphy

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