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

From Yann Michel
Subject Re: plans for bitmap indexes?
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Msg-id 20041008072755.GB6719@zoom.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de
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In response to Re: plans for bitmap indexes?  (Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>)
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Hi,

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:41:04PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Sure, and the next will come with musicbrainz.
> Why not :)

I don't know what this means to my questin, but anyway...

> If you don't want to code that in the app, the database backend is the 
> solution. The database is the golden hammer. 


Therefore I asked wheather there are any thoughts of implementing them.

Regards,
Yann


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