Improve comment for tricky aspect of index-only scans.

Jeff Davis <jdavis@postgresql.org>

Commit: 35c0cd3b05b0be18dc2d049c33b38a2d13993ffe
Author: Jeff Davis <jdavis@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-05-07T02:27:43Z
Releases: 9.4.0
Improve comment for tricky aspect of index-only scans.

Index-only scans avoid taking a lock on the VM buffer, which would
cause a lot of contention. To be correct, that requires some intricate
assumptions that weren't completely documented in the previous
comment.

Reviewed by Robert Haas.

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src/backend/executor/nodeIndexonlyscan.c modified +25 −9