Re: Index Skip Scan

From: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Floris Van Nee <florisvannee(at)Optiver(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Jesper Pedersen <jesper(dot)pedersen(at)redhat(dot)com>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, James Coleman <jtc331(at)gmail(dot)com>, Rafia Sabih <rafia(dot)pghackers(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bhushan Uparkar <bhushan(dot)uparkar(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: Index Skip Scan
Date: 2020-01-22 21:37:16
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> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 09:08:59PM +0000, Floris Van Nee wrote:
> > Note in particular that index scans cannot return the same index tuple twice -
> > - processing a page at a time ensures that that cannot happen.
> >
> > Can a loose index scan return the same tuple (i.e. a tuple with the same heap
> > TID) to the executor more than once?
> >
>
> The loose index scan shouldn't return a tuple twice. It should only be able to skip 'further', so that shouldn't be a problem.

Yes, it shouldn't happen.

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