Re: improve transparency of bitmap-only heap scans

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: James Coleman <jtc331(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Alexey Bashtanov <bashtanov(at)imap(dot)cc>, Emre Hasegeli <emre(at)hasegeli(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: improve transparency of bitmap-only heap scans
Date: 2020-03-30 04:29:29
Message-ID: 25659.1585542569@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 8:02 PM James Coleman <jtc331(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I'm curious if Tom's objection is mostly on the grounds that we should
>> be consistent in what's displayed, or that he thinks the information
>> is likely to be useless.

> Yeah, it would be good if he clarifies his position.

Some of both: it seems like these ought to be consistent, and the
lack of complaints so far about regular index-only scans suggests
that people don't need the info. But perhaps we ought to add
similar info in both places.

regards, tom lane

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