docs: mention the optimizer can increase the index usage count

Report by Marko Tiikkaja
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Bruce Momjian 2015-03-19 22:38:12 -04:00
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</para>
<para>
Indexes can be used via either simple index scans or <quote>bitmap</>
index scans. In a bitmap scan
Indexes can be used by simple index scans, <quote>bitmap</> index scans,
and the optimizer. In a bitmap scan
the output of several indexes can be combined via AND or OR rules,
so it is difficult to associate individual heap row fetches
with specific indexes when a bitmap scan is used. Therefore, a bitmap
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<structname>pg_stat_all_tables</>.<structfield>idx_tup_fetch</>
count for the table, but it does not affect
<structname>pg_stat_all_indexes</>.<structfield>idx_tup_fetch</>.
The optimizer also accesses indexes to check for supplied constants
whose values are outside the recorded range of the optimizer statistics
because the optimizer statistics might be stale.
</para>
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