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Comments: In-reply-to Greg Stark <greg.stark@enterprisedb.com>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Greg Stark <greg.stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> If we do this though it would be really nice to do it at a higher  
> level than the indexam. If we could do it for any indexam that  
> provides a kind of bulk insert method that would be great.

> I'm just not sure how to support all the indexable operators for the  
> various indexams on the local buffered list.

In principle, just return all those TIDs marked "lossy, please recheck".
This is a bit brute-force but I'm not sure any useful optimization is
possible.

			regards, tom lane