Re: No heap lookups on index - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: No heap lookups on index
Date
Msg-id 20060118223853.GW17896@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: No heap lookups on index  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:02:45PM -0500, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> David,
> 
> You can find some of this discussion in "Much Ado About COUNT(*)".  Related
> to that discussion, I had written a patch which added visibility information
> to the indexes.
> 
> If you're interested in the patch and/or consulting, contact me offline.

Does the patch change all indexes across the board? Do you have any
performance numbers?

I suspect that in some situations storing visibility info in the index
would be a big win; if that's the case it would be very good if there
was an option that allowed it. Perhaps this could be done using a
different index access method...
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