Re: [HACKERS] No heap lookups on index - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Glen Parker
Subject Re: [HACKERS] No heap lookups on index
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Msg-id 43CED5BB.50807@nwlink.com
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Responses Re: [HACKERS] No heap lookups on index  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
>>What ever happened to grouped heap reads, i.e. building a list of tuples
>>from the index, sorting in heap order, then reading the heap in a batch?
>
>
> Done in 8.1.  I'm uncertain whether Scott knows about that ...

That's GREAT news!  Is that the "Bitmap Scan" item in the what's new
list (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew)?  I didn't even notice it
when I read it the first time.  I'm really looking forward to our
upcoming 8.1 upgrade.

-Glen

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