hi,i use these codes to store only pointer of tuple :
HeapTuple *tuple;
tuple = heap_getnext(pHeapScanDesc,ForwardScanDirection);
while(tuple){
//[1#]here i only store the pointer of tuple in an array for later using,that means i don't retrive attribute data from this tuple ,is this ok?
myArray[i++]=tuple;
//then next tuple
tuple = heap_getnext(pHeapScanDesc,ForwardScanDirection);
}
at place [1#],i only store the pointer of current tuple in an array for later using,that means
i don't retrieve attribute data from this tuple ,is this ok?
could these tuple pointers be invalid sometimes later if myArray still reference these tuples? i know these tuples have been read into buffers in shared memory, yet I am not sure wether these buffers be replaced or marked invalid when myArray still points to these tuples in according buffers.
thanks a lot!
peng
