Re: improve transparency of bitmap-only heap scans

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:44 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> I took a quick look through this patch.  While I see nothing to complain
> about implementation-wise, I'm a bit befuddled as to why we need this
> reporting when there is no comparable data provided for regular index-only
> scans.  Over there, you just get "Heap Fetches: n", and the existing
> counts for bitmap scans seem to cover the same territory.
>

Isn't deducing similar information ("Skipped Heap Fetches: n") there
is a bit easier than it is here?

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