From: george young <gry@ll.mit.edu>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: tid_le comparison for tuple id (ctid) values?
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:35:27 -0500
Message-ID: <20051121203527.5378122b.gry@ll.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4271.1132607968@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <20051121160016.282c66c2.gry@ll.mit.edu>
<4271.1132607968@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:19:28 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> threw this fish to the penguins:
> george young <gry@ll.mit.edu> writes:
> > update steps set x=x||'X' from steps s where steps.key1=s.key1 and steps.key2=s.key2 and step.ctid<s.ctid;
>
> > But this fails because there is no less-than operator (or function) on
> > type "tid".
>
> Probably a good thing, too, since if there was it wouldn't have anything
> reliable to do with the age of the tuple.
Well, I don't have any need for it to correlate with the age of the
tuple. My use of step.ctid<s.ctid was not to get the earliest or
latest row, but just to *choose* one. Perhaps there's some other
query that would modify only one of each pair of equal-keyed rows?
-- George
--
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What would become of us if they were?" (CSL)
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