Commit 56b62cbd authored by Simon Riggs's avatar Simon Riggs

Clarify description of covering indexes in release notes

parent a6e1d7b5
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This is often called "index-only scans" or "covering indexes".
This is often called "index-only scans", a feature which now enables
the use of indexes with additional columns, or "covering indexes".
This is possible for heap pages with exclusively all-visible
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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