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

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: index-only scans
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Msg-id CA+TgmoZy=bV-7r-EyfTiiHeTQvB1+YOVAMRgA+ENjfDY=cwVAA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: index-only scans  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: index-only scans  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> Please find attached a patch implementing a basic version of
>> index-only scans.
>
> 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.

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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