Re: index-only scans - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: index-only scans
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Msg-id 23893.1318013485@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: index-only scans  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'm making some progress with this, but I notice what seems like a
>> missing feature: there needs to be a way to turn it off. �Otherwise
>> performance comparisons will be difficult to impossible.
>> 
>> The most obvious solution is a planner control GUC, perhaps
>> "enable_indexonlyscan". �Anyone object, or want to bikeshed the name?

> I was expecting you to NOT want that, or I would have put it in to
> begin with...  so go for it.

It seems unlikely to have any use except for testing, but I think we
need it for that.
        regards, tom lane


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