Re: No heap lookups on index - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: No heap lookups on index
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Msg-id 11727.1137655599@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: No heap lookups on index  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: No heap lookups on index  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>)
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Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> I wonder if the bitmap can actually be one bit per page actually.

Yeah, I think we'd agreed that per-page was the way to go.  Per-tuple
bitmaps are painful to manage because of the variable number of tuples
per page.  And really all you need to know is whether to read the page
or not --- once you have, examining multiple tuples on it doesn't cost
much.
        regards, tom lane


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