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Support index-only scans using the visibility map to avoid heap fetches.

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When a btree index contains all columns required by the query, and the
visibility map shows that all tuples on a target heap page are
visible-to-all, we don't need to fetch that heap page.  This patch depends
on the previous patches that made the visibility map reliable.

There's a fair amount left to do here, notably trying to figure out a less
chintzy way of estimating the cost of an index-only scan, but the core
functionality seems ready to commit.

Robert Haas and Ibrar Ahmed, with some previous work by Heikki Linnakangas.
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Tom Lane
2011-10-07 20:13:02 -04:00
parent caa1054df8
commit a2822fb933
34 changed files with 704 additions and 203 deletions
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src/backend/commands/explain.c
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@ -656,7 +656,10 @@ ExplainNode(PlanState *planstate, List *ancestors,
pname = sname = "Seq Scan";
break;
case T_IndexScan:
pname = sname = "Index Scan";
if (((IndexScan *) plan)->indexonly)
pname = sname = "Index Only Scan";
else
pname = sname = "Index Scan";
break;
case T_BitmapIndexScan:
pname = sname = "Bitmap Index Scan";