On 11/6/07, Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc> wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 09:52 +0000, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > I'm racking my brain trying to think of a query that will benefit from
> > index-only scans without specifically creating covered indexes. Apart
> > from count(*) queries and RI lookups. I can't see RI lookups being much
> > cheaper with this technique, do you see something there
> I'm not sure what RI lookup is. Sorry. :-)
>
> My list would be:
> - EXISTS / NOT EXISTS
> - COUNT(*)
> - Tables that are heavily updated - any case where the index entry often
> maps to a non-visible tuple.
>
> Beyond that, yeah, I cannot think of other benefits.
Joins?
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marko
