I mean, not really, theres no magic in Postgres' implementation of the pattern. They even spell it out for you: "can be useful in various scenarios, such as ro

I mean, not really, theres no magic in Postgres' implementation of the pattern. They even spell it out for you: "can be useful in various scenarios, such as rows with many attributes that are rarely examined" They are querying these quite heavily, they aren't just random attributes they need to retrieve.