Re: Re: Tid scan improvements - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Steele
Subject Re: Re: Tid scan improvements
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Msg-id f9c17014-3269-2fc1-2c77-dd102c42e410@pgmasters.net
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In response to Re: Tid scan improvements  (David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 3/18/19 1:35 PM, David Rowley wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 18:42, Edmund Horner <ejrh00@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Subsequent commits will incrementally abstract table access
>> functionality to be routed through table access methods. That change
>> is too large to be reviewed & committed at once, so it'll be done
>> incrementally.
> 
> and looking at [1] I see patch 0004 introduces some changes in
> nodeTidscan.c to call a new tableam API function named
> heapam_fetch_row_version. I see this function does have a ItemPointer
> argument, so I guess we must be keeping those as unique row
> identifiers in the API.
> 
> Patch 0001 does change the signature of heap_setscanlimits() (appears
> to be committed already), and then in 0010 the only code that calls
> heap_setscanlimits() (IndexBuildHeapRangeScan()) is moved and renamed
> to heapam_index_build_range_scan() and set to be called via the
> index_build_range_scan TableAmRoutine method.  So it looks like out of
> that patch series nothing is there to allow you to access
> heap_setscanlimits() directly via the TableAmRoutine API, so perhaps
> for this to work heap_setscanlimits will need to be interfaced,
> however, I'm unsure if that'll violate any assumptions that Andres
> wants to keep out of the API...  Andres?

Thoughts on this, Andres?

Regards,
-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net


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