Re: Visibility map thoughts - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Visibility map thoughts
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Msg-id 47322A7E.8060000@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: Visibility map thoughts  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
Responses Re: Visibility map thoughts  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2007 at  8:18 AM, in message <473077AD.30101@enterprisedb.com>,
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> wrote: 
>  
>> The indexam API needs to be modified as well, because there's currently 
>> no API to return index tuples from an index.
>  
> I know this is tangential, but expanding the types of selection
> criteria which can be applied to index entries (beyond equality and
> range tests) might fall out of this, yes?

What else so you have in mind?

With index-only-scans, it would sometimes make sense to do a full index 
scan. I wasn't thinking of anything else on that front myself.

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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