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authorDavid Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>2024-10-29 16:26:41 +1300
committerDavid Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>2024-10-29 16:26:41 +1300
commit857f13f79994c7314605236b2ab567eb9d6c4766 (patch)
treed139807d32df9825c2a88aa90970f25103eca2b1
parente30d0d8adf534453355024aae68b8b691c105b67 (diff)
Doc: clarify enable_indexscan=off also disabled Index Only Scans
Disabling enable_indexscan has always also disabled Index Only Scans. Here we make that more clear in the documentation in an attempt to prevent future complaints complaining about this expected behavior. Reported-by: Melanie Plageman Author: David G. Johnston, David Rowley Backpatch-through: 12, oldest supported version Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_atV=kovgpaLREyG68PB5+ncKvJ2UNoeRetEgyC3Yb5Sw@mail.gmail.com
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/config.sgml9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 38f09327d88..6f1772ffb42 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -4615,8 +4615,9 @@ ANY <replaceable class="parameter">num_sync</replaceable> ( <replaceable class="
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Enables or disables the query planner's use of index-scan plan
- types. The default is <literal>on</literal>.
+ Enables or disables the query planner's use of index-scan and
+ index-only-scan plan types. The default is <literal>on</literal>.
+ Also see <xref linkend="guc-enable-indexonlyscan"/>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -4631,7 +4632,9 @@ ANY <replaceable class="parameter">num_sync</replaceable> ( <replaceable class="
<para>
Enables or disables the query planner's use of index-only-scan plan
types (see <xref linkend="indexes-index-only-scans"/>).
- The default is <literal>on</literal>.
+ The default is <literal>on</literal>. The
+ <xref linkend="guc-enable-indexscan"/> setting must also be
+ enabled to have the query planner consider index-only-scans.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>