- /* If it's visible per the snapshot, we must return it */
- valid = HeapTupleSatisfiesVisibility(heapTuple, scan->xs_snapshot,
- scan->xs_cbuf);
-
- CheckForSerializableConflictOut(valid, scan->heapRelation,
- heapTuple, scan->xs_cbuf);
-
- if (valid)
- {
- /*
- * If the snapshot is MVCC, we know that it could accept at
- * most one member of the HOT chain, so we can skip examining
- * any more members. Otherwise, check for continuation of the
- * HOT-chain, and set state for next time.
- */
- if (IsMVCCSnapshot(scan->xs_snapshot)
- && !IsolationIsSerializable())
- scan->xs_next_hot = InvalidOffsetNumber;
- else if (HeapTupleIsHotUpdated(heapTuple))
- {
- Assert(ItemPointerGetBlockNumber(ctid) ==
- ItemPointerGetBlockNumber(tid));
- scan->xs_next_hot = ItemPointerGetOffsetNumber(ctid);
- scan->xs_prev_xmax = HeapTupleHeaderGetXmax(heapTuple->t_data);
- }
- else
- scan->xs_next_hot = InvalidOffsetNumber;
-
- PredicateLockTuple(scan->heapRelation, heapTuple);
-
- LockBuffer(scan->xs_cbuf, BUFFER_LOCK_UNLOCK);
-
- pgstat_count_heap_fetch(scan->indexRelation);
-
- return heapTuple;
- }
+ /*
+ * If we scanned a whole HOT chain and found only dead tuples, tell index
+ * AM to kill its entry for that TID (this will take effect in the next
+ * amgettuple call, in index_getnext_tid). We do not do this when in
+ * recovery because it may violate MVCC to do so. See comments in
+ * RelationGetIndexScan().
+ */
+ if (!scan->xactStartedInRecovery)
+ scan->kill_prior_tuple = all_dead;