Re: enable_indexonly

On 04/27/2012 11:45 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Thom Brown<thom@linux.com>  wrote:
>> On 27 April 2012 16:08, Simon Riggs<simon@2ndquadrant.com>  wrote:
>>> I notice that there isn't a parameter called enable_indexonly (or similar).
>>>
>>> ISTM that such a major new feature should be controlled by a planner
>>> method parameter, just as all the existing planner methods are.
>>>
>>> This will help us evaluate index only scans in production, and turn
>>> them off if they have negative impacts.
>> It already exists and is called "enable_indexonlyscan".
> Hmm. Forgive me, I pressed the wrong button and looked at current docs
> rather than dev docs.
>
> (Easier when they used to look different...)

Maybe we should have the stylesheet watermark the dev docs pages.

cheers

andrew