I was going to end this series with the previous post because the last access path available in Postgres is a bit special: a Seq Scan that returns only a sample of the rows, at random. However, it is the occasion to come back to the difference between random and sequential reads.
I’m still working on the same table as in the previous posts, with 10000 rows in 1429 pages. 5% of rows is 500 rows and 5% of blocks is about 72 pages.
