| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: index-only scans |
| Date: | 2011-10-07 18:47:58 |
| Message-ID: | 4E8F495E.9040807@commandprompt.com |
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On 10/07/2011 11:40 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas<robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Please find attached a patch implementing a basic version of
>> index-only scans.
>
> I'm making some progress with this, but I notice what seems like a
> missing feature: there needs to be a way to turn it off. Otherwise
> performance comparisons will be difficult to impossible.
>
> The most obvious solution is a planner control GUC, perhaps
> "enable_indexonlyscan". Anyone object, or want to bikeshed the name?
enable_onlyindexscan
I'm kidding.
+1 on Tom's proposed name.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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