This is often called "index-only scans" or "covering indexes".
This is possible for heap pages with exclusively all-visible
- tuples, as reported by the visibility map.
+ tuples, as reported by the visibility map. The visibility map was
+ made crash-safe as a necessary part of implementing this feature.
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Allow frequently uncontended locks to be recorded using a new
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- Make the visibility map crash-safe (Robert Haas, Noah Misch)
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- This helps vacuum be more efficient, and is necessary for
- index-only scans.
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Improve PowerPC and Itanium spinlock performance (Manabu Ori,