Re: EXPLAIN IndexOnlyScan shows disabled when enable_indexonlyscan=on - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 14:46, David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
> We should probably at least improve the documentation in 19.17.1; this interaction is apparently not self-evident.
>
> enable_indexscan
>
> Enable or disable the planner’s use of both index-scan and index-only-scans plan types.
>
> enabled_indexonlyscan
>
> Set to off to disable index-only-scan plan type while leaving index-scan plan types enabled.  This setting has no
effectif enable_indexscan is set to off. 

Yeah, I agree. The documentation could better reflect the current behaviour.

Do you want to submit that in patch form?

David