>>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: 
> What's weird about this example is that when he sets enable_seqscan
to
> off, the bitmap index scan plan is actually substantially faster,
even
> though it in fact does scan nearly the entire heap.  I don't
> understand how it can be faster to scan the index and the heap than
to
> just scan the heap.
 
It's cached in the second test, maybe?
 
-Kevin