Re: tid_le comparison for tuple id (ctid) values?

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:19:28 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> threw this fish to the penguins:

> george young <gry(at)ll(dot)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> > update steps set x=x||'X' from steps s where steps.key1=s.key1 and steps.key2=s.key2 and step.ctid<s.ctid;
>
> > But this fails because there is no less-than operator (or function) on
> > type "tid".
>
> Probably a good thing, too, since if there was it wouldn't have anything
> reliable to do with the age of the tuple.

Well, I don't have any need for it to correlate with the age of the
tuple. My use of step.ctid<s.ctid was not to get the earliest or
latest row, but just to *choose* one. Perhaps there's some other
query that would modify only one of each pair of equal-keyed rows?

-- George
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