From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:35:27 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Clarify description of covering indexes in release notes
X-Git-Tag: REL9_2_BETA3~140
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=56b62cbd01f2857a1f7e72614922b62148350a75;p=postgresql

Clarify description of covering indexes in release notes
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
index a842d448e9..ce368e9098 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
@@ -425,7 +425,8 @@
        </para>
 
        <para>
-        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.