Re: improve transparency of bitmap-only heap scans

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 7:09 AM James Coleman <jtc331(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Awesome, thanks for confirming with an actual plan.
>
> > I don't think it matters in nontext mode, but at least in text mode, I think
> > maybe the Unfetched blocks should be output after the exact and lossy blocks,
> > in case someone is parsing it, and because bitmap-only is a relatively new
> > feature. Its output is probably less common than exact/lossy.
>
> I tweaked that (and a comment that didn't reference the change); see attached.
>

Few comments:
1.
-
- if (tbmres->ntuples >= 0)
+ else if (tbmres->ntuples >= 0)
node->exact_pages++;

How is this change related to this patch?

2.
+ * unfetched_pages total number of pages not retrieved due to vm
* prefetch_iterator iterator for prefetching ahead of current page
* prefetch_pages # pages prefetch iterator is ahead of current
* prefetch_target current target prefetch distance
@@ -1591,6 +1592,7 @@ typedef struct BitmapHeapScanState
Buffer pvmbuffer;
long exact_pages;
long lossy_pages;
+ long unfetched_pages;

Can we name it as skipped_pages?

3. Can we add a test or two for this functionality?

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Amit Kapila.
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