>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
Tom> For starters, read the previous discussions of this in the Tom> archives.
Tom> Two questions you should have answers to before starting to Tom> implement, rather than after, are how to
dealwith locking Tom> considerations and what will be the implications of giving up Tom> the property that
indexscansdeliver sorted output.
I don't know about the former, but as to the latter, we should
certainly have the ability for both output sorted by key and
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