Tom Lane wrote:
>>What ever happened to grouped heap reads, i.e. building a list of tuples
>>from the index, sorting in heap order, then reading the heap in a batch?
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> Done in 8.1. I'm uncertain whether Scott knows about that ...
That's GREAT news! Is that the "Bitmap Scan" item in the what's new
list (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew)? I didn't even notice it
when I read it the first time. I'm really looking forward to our
upcoming 8.1 upgrade.
-Glen