Re: Air-traffic benchmark - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Gurgel, Flavio
Subject Re: Air-traffic benchmark
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Msg-id 21221819.49291262887821207.JavaMail.root@mail.4linux.com.br
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In response to Re: Air-traffic benchmark  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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----- "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.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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