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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2011-10-07 20:13:02 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2011-10-07 20:14:13 -0400
commita2822fb9337a21f98ac4ce850bb4145acf47ca27 (patch)
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parentcaa1054df8408b165e5f66ff25c87b6dd0a0a1e7 (diff)
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Support index-only scans using the visibility map to avoid heap fetches.
When a btree index contains all columns required by the query, and the visibility map shows that all tuples on a target heap page are visible-to-all, we don't need to fetch that heap page. This patch depends on the previous patches that made the visibility map reliable. There's a fair amount left to do here, notably trying to figure out a less chintzy way of estimating the cost of an index-only scan, but the core functionality seems ready to commit. Robert Haas and Ibrar Ahmed, with some previous work by Heikki Linnakangas.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/commands/explain.c')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/commands/explain.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/explain.c b/src/backend/commands/explain.c
index cd9fc929232..fbcaf6cbe09 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/explain.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/explain.c
@@ -656,7 +656,10 @@ ExplainNode(PlanState *planstate, List *ancestors,
pname = sname = "Seq Scan";
break;
case T_IndexScan:
- pname = sname = "Index Scan";
+ if (((IndexScan *) plan)->indexonly)
+ pname = sname = "Index Only Scan";
+ else
+ pname = sname = "Index Scan";
break;
case T_BitmapIndexScan:
pname = sname = "Bitmap Index Scan";