Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> The other major issue with the Bitmap index patch as it stood in 2007 was
>> that performance just wasn't that much faster than a btree, except for
>> specific corner cases. Otherwise, someone else would have been interested
>> enough to pick it up and finish it.
> Actually as I recall the immediate issue was that the patch was more complex
> than necessary.
Well, yeah, but if the performance isn't there then who's going to spend
time refactoring the code?
regards, tom lane
