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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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@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ extern IndexPath *create_index_path(PlannerInfo *root,
List *indexorderbys,
List *pathkeys,
ScanDirection indexscandir,
bool indexonly,
RelOptInfo *outer_rel);
extern BitmapHeapPath *create_bitmap_heap_path(PlannerInfo *root,
RelOptInfo *rel,