On 25/10/2013 11:06, Albe Laurenz wrote:

> Just because there is an entry in the index does not imply that the
> corresponding table entry is visible for this transaction.
> To ascertain that, the table row itself has to be checked.

Understood.

> PostgreSQL 9.2 introduced "index only scan" which avoids that
> additional step if it is safe to do so.

It doesn't help in this case - the plan for the same query on a copy of
the database on 9.3 is exactly the same.

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