Bruno Lavoie escribió:
> Hello,
>
> I have a column with a small number of distinct values, indexing this
> one with a standard BTree is useless. How do I can index this column
> efficiently? I searched and it seems that pg doesn't support the
> creation of persistent bitmap indexes...
It doesn't.
> Is that feature planned in next releases of pg?
There are some efforts to get it done, but don't hold your breath (it
won't be in 8.4 either, as it has major problems currently.)
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