Testing Index Skip scan

From: Alexandre Felipe <alexandre(dot)felipe(at)tpro(dot)io>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Testing Index Skip scan
Date: 2022-06-28 11:46:07
Message-ID: CAPYutMRJ-N_pjGyUqdNyhOyPX7Q3DG_Kbetes13RpB6zPDH-_g@mail.gmail.com
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I have been interested in a query that returns a batch of results filtered
by a subset of the first column of an index and ordered by the second.

I created a simple (hopefully) reproducible example of the issue, the two
queries describe the same data but have very different costs (explain
output included in the attached file).
server_version 12.8

On slack #pgsql-hackers channel, @sfrost, it was suggested that what I
described is achieved by index skip scan. How can I get a development build
to test this feature?

Attachment Content-Type Size
psql-skip-index-scan.txt text/plain 5.0 KB

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