Merge visibility map crash-safety into index-only scan release note

item, per Robert Haas.
pull/3/head
Bruce Momjian 14 years ago
parent f40022f1ad
commit 5428ff4af8
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      doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml

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<para>
This is often called "index-only scans" or "covering indexes".
This is possible for heap pages with exclusively all-visible
tuples, as reported by the visibility map.
tuples, as reported by the visibility map. The visibility map was
made crash-safe as a necessary part of implementing this feature.
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<para>
Allow frequently uncontended locks to be recorded using a new
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<para>
Make the visibility map crash-safe (Robert Haas, Noah Misch)
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<para>
This helps vacuum be more efficient, and is necessary for
index-only scans.
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Improve PowerPC and Itanium spinlock performance (Manabu Ori,

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