Re: PageIndexTupleDelete

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PageIndexTupleDelete
Date: 2009-12-06 15:21:14
Message-ID: 23457.1260112874@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Having a special function that exists only for use in rare occasions
> seems like a great recipe for sporadic corruption, if we are taking the
> "paranoia seems justified" approach.

It used to be called all the time, before some of the more popular
paths got optimized into PageIndexMultiDelete calls. I'm not
particularly worried about it being broken. I *am* worried about
the performance hit of using MultiDelete to no purpose.

regards, tom lane

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