Re: Visibility map thoughts

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Visibility map thoughts
Date: 2007-11-07 21:13:34
Message-ID: 47322A7E.8060000@enterprisedb.com
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Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2007 at 8:18 AM, in message <473077AD(dot)30101(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>,
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)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.

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

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