Re: plans for bitmap indexes? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: plans for bitmap indexes?
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Msg-id 200410072254.i97MsF304599@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to plans for bitmap indexes?  (Yann Michel <yann-postgresql@spline.de>)
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Yann Michel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to know if there are any plans on introducing bitmap indexes
> into postgresql. I think this could mean a big performance improvement
> especially for datawarehousing applications. I know that there is an
> index type hash but I don't know how both types are comparable due to
> they are both best usable for equality expressions.

Lots of people have talked about it but I don't know anyone coding it.
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