Checking a heap page

Started by Bruce Momjianover 20 years ago2 messageshackers

bruce@momjian.us

over 20 years ago

With the applied patch that checks an entire heap page with one lock, is
there any advantage of considering this for index pages?

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Tom Lane

tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us

over 20 years ago

In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#1)

Re: Checking a heap page

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

With the applied patch that checks an entire heap page with one lock, is
there any advantage of considering this for index pages?

Done already (see bitmap index scans).

regards, tom lane