Re: [HACKERS] No heap lookups on index

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? 
> 
> 
> 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