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Measure the number of all-visible pages for use in index-only scan costing.

Add a column pg_class.relallvisible to remember the number of pages that
were all-visible according to the visibility map as of the last VACUUM
(or ANALYZE, or some other operations that update pg_class.relpages).
Use relallvisible/relpages, instead of an arbitrary constant, to estimate
how many heap page fetches can be avoided during an index-only scan.

This is pretty primitive and will no doubt see refinements once we've
acquired more field experience with the index-only scan mechanism, but
it's way better than using a constant.

Note: I had to adjust an underspecified query in the window.sql regression
test, because it was changing answers when the plan changed to use an
index-only scan.  Some of the adjacent tests perhaps should be adjusted
as well, but I didn't do that here.
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane
2011-10-14 17:23:01 -04:00
parent dea95c7a7b
commit e6858e6657
22 changed files with 246 additions and 72 deletions

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</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><structfield>relallvisible</structfield></entry>
<entry><type>int4</type></entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry>
Number of pages that are marked all-visible in the table's
visibility map. This is only an estimate used by the
planner. It is updated by <command>VACUUM</command>,
<command>ANALYZE</command>, and a few DDL commands such as
<command>CREATE INDEX</command>.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><structfield>reltoastrelid</structfield></entry>
<entry><type>oid</type></entry>