Re: Doubts about oid - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jayadevan M
Subject Re: Doubts about oid
Date
Msg-id OFFDD503B5.841F48F8-ON652576CF.001855F9-652576CF.0018E111@ibsplc.com
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In response to Re: Doubts about oid  (John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>)
List pgsql-general
Hi,
>  Even in Oracle, I don't believe rowid bypasses
> indexes, its more like an implicit SERIAL PRIMARY KEY field.

Well, I understand the point is not very relevant, since oid is not similar to rowid. In Oracle, index scans are bypassed if we use rowid.

1)Access by unique index

SQL> select * from myt where id=200;
Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
Plan hash value: 1325982734

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

----

| Id  | Operation                   | Name | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time
   |

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

----

|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT            |      |     1 |    65 |     1   (0)| 00:00:

01 |

|   1 |  TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| MYT  |     1 |    65 |     1   (0)| 00:00:

01 |

|*  2 |   INDEX UNIQUE SCAN         | MYDX |     1 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:

01 |

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2) Access by rowid

SQL> select * from myt where rowid='AAAH9iAAEAAAAafADH';

        ID
----------
NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

       200
REFCON$



Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
Plan hash value: 4204525950

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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| Id  | Operation                  | Name | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time
  |

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

---

|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT           |      |     1 |    77 |     1   (0)| 00:00:0

1 |

|   1 |  TABLE ACCESS BY USER ROWID| MYT  |     1 |    77 |     1   (0)| 00:00:0



Regards,
Jayadevan





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