Tom Lane wrote:
What ever happened to grouped heap reads, i.e. building a list of tuples from the index, sorting in heap order, then reading the heap in a batch?Done in 8.1. I'm uncertain whether Scott knows about that ...
That's GREAT news! Is that the "Bitmap Scan" item in the what's new list (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew)? I didn't even notice it when I read it the first time. I'm really looking forward to our upcoming 8.1 upgrade.
-Glen