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

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.
This commit is contained in:
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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@ -3297,7 +3297,7 @@ plan_cluster_use_sort(Oid tableOid, Oid indexOid)
/* Estimate the cost of index scan */
indexScanPath = create_index_path(root, indexInfo,
NIL, NIL, NIL,
ForwardScanDirection, NULL);
ForwardScanDirection, false, NULL);
return (seqScanAndSortPath.total_cost < indexScanPath->path.total_cost);
}