Re: Tid scan improvements

On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 16:52, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2018-Nov-06, David Rowley wrote:
> > 14. we pass 'false' to what?
> >
> > + * save the tuple and the buffer returned to us by the access methods in
> > + * our scan tuple slot and return the slot. Note: we pass 'false' because
> > + * tuples returned by heap_getnext() are pointers onto disk pages and were
> > + * not created with palloc() and so should not be pfree()'d. Note also
> > + * that ExecStoreHeapTuple will increment the refcount of the buffer; the
> > + * refcount will not be dropped until the tuple table slot is cleared.
> > */
>
> Seems a mistake stemming from 29c94e03c7d0 ...

Yep -- I copied that bit from nodeSeqscan.c. Some of the notes were
removed in that change, but nodeSeqscan.c and nodeIndexscan.c still
have them.

I made a little patch to remove them.