Re: Air-traffic benchmark

From: "Gurgel, Flavio" <flavio(at)4linux(dot)com(dot)br>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org>, Lefteris <lsidir(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Ivan Voras <ivoras(at)freebsd(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Air-traffic benchmark
Date: 2010-01-07 18:10:21
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----- "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> escreveu:

> You do know that indexes in postgresql are not "covering" right?
> I.e.
> after hitting the index, the db then has to hit the table to see if
> those rows are in fact visible. So there's no such thing in pgsql,
> at
> the moment, as an index only scan.

That was just an estimation of effort to reach a tuple through seqscan X indexscan. In both cases the tuple have to be checked, sure.

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