Re: Get the offset of a tuple inside a table

Hi Szymon, Kevin,
The offset is the order of a tuple in a Sequential Scan.

What I want to do is, for a given key return the tuples that Index scan can
find, and return the rest tuples by a seq scan. So, I need to know which
tuples have been returned by maintain a bitmap, and to avoid return the same
tuple twice.

If I can know the offset of a tuple in the order of file scan, then I can
force the seq scan to skip it.

By ctid, can I know how much tuples are in a block, is it an constant?

I think a more general solution would be build a hash table on ctid.
What do you think?

Thanks
--
Pei

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Szymon Guz <mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> On 21 September 2010 23:02, Pei He <hepeimail(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> When I using an index scan, can I get the offset of the tuple in the
>> table?
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>> Thanks
>> --
>> Pei
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> What do you mean by "the offset in the table"?
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