Glen Parker wrote: > 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 Yes. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073