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Clarify description of covering indexes in release notes
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doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml

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This is often called "index-only scans" or "covering indexes".
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This is often called "index-only scans", a feature which now enables
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the use of indexes with additional columns, or "covering indexes".
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This is possible for heap pages with exclusively all-visible
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tuples, as reported by the visibility map. The visibility map was
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made crash-safe as a necessary part of implementing this feature.

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