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    Rearrange the implementation of index-only scans. · a0185461
    Tom Lane authored
    This commit changes index-only scans so that data is read directly from the
    index tuple without first generating a faux heap tuple.  The only immediate
    benefit is that indexes on system columns (such as OID) can be used in
    index-only scans, but this is necessary infrastructure if we are ever to
    support index-only scans on expression indexes.  The executor is now ready
    for that, though the planner still needs substantial work to recognize
    the possibility.
    
    To do this, Vars in index-only plan nodes have to refer to index columns
    not heap columns.  I introduced a new special varno, INDEX_VAR, to mark
    such Vars to avoid confusion.  (In passing, this commit renames the two
    existing special varnos to OUTER_VAR and INNER_VAR.)  This allows
    ruleutils.c to handle them with logic similar to what we use for subplan
    reference Vars.
    
    Since index-only scans are now fundamentally different from regular
    indexscans so far as their expression subtrees are concerned, I also chose
    to change them to have their own plan node type (and hence, their own
    executor source file).
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