Re: index-only scans

Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>

From: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-10-09T21:31:42Z
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  1. Reduce the alignment requirement of type "name" from int to char, and arrange

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> At the moment I'm leaning to approach #3, but I wonder if anyone has
> a different opinion or another idea altogether.
>

Would any of these make it more realistic to talk about the crazy
plans Heikki suggested like doing two index scans, doing the join
between the index tuples, and only then looking up the visibility
information and remaining columns for the tuple on the matching rows?

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greg