Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I think this so-called two-step approach is pretty ugly.
Well it does not need to be exposed to the user, thinking about it, as
proposed in the other thread. Other than that, you're argument here is
exactly the same as the ones saying that VACUUM or Hint Bints are
bad. It's just that if you want correctness, you don't have anything
better.
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