Allow queries to retrieve data only from indexes, avoiding heap access (Robert Haas, Ibrar Ahmed, Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
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.
I’m a full time MySQL DBA who loves PostgreSQL. :)
Completely sick and tired of the bug of the week. I’m perfectly happy to deal with a few planner warts in certain circumstances on PG vs completely hair brained bug and improper feature additions in MySQL.
PostgreSQL has a significantly better planner overall and supports many different types of joins. MySQL isn’t cost based and only supports loop joins.
MySQL is a toy.
“In PostgreSQL there is no built-in mechanism for limiting database size. This is the main reason why the most of the web hosting companies are using MySQL.”