Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:52:41AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> One more observation:
> 
> Allow inserts to trigger autovacuum activity (Laurenz Albe, Darafei
> Praliaskouski)
> This new behavior allows pages to be set as all-visible, which then
> allows index-only scans, ...
> 
> The above sentence sounds to mean that this feature allows index-only
> scans in more number of cases after this feature.  Is that what you
> intend to say? If so, is that correct?  Because I think this will

Yes.

> allow index-only scans to skip "Heap Fetches" in more cases.

Uh, by definition an index-only scan only scans the index, not the heap,
right?  It is true there are fewer heap fetches, but fewer heap features
I thought mean more index-only scans.

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