Re: preserving forensic information when we freeze

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Robert Haas escribió:
>> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Alvaro Herrera
>> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> > I assume without checking that passing reloid/ctid would allow this to
>> > work for tuples in a RETURNING clause; and if we ever have an OLD
>> > reference for the RETURNING clause of an UPDATE, that it would work
>> > there, too, showing the post-update status of the updated tuple.
>>
>> I don't understand what you're saying here. Are you saying that
>> reloid/ctid is a better approach, a worse approach, or just a
>> different approach?
>
> That probably wasn't worded very well. I am just saying that whatever
> approach we end up with, it would be nice that it worked somehow with
> RETURNING clauses.

Hmm. It's not evident to me why that particular case would be any
different than anything else, but that might be my ignorance showing.

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