Re: Implementing Bitmap Indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: Implementing Bitmap Indexes
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Msg-id 41FC255F.9030804@samurai.com
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In response to Re: Implementing Bitmap Indexes  (Mike Rylander <mrylander@gmail.com>)
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Mike Rylander wrote:
> For on-disk bitmap indexes, yes.  I don't see any reason this couldn't
> be done with GiST

It might be possible to do it with GiST, but GiST is designed for 
implementing tree-structured indexes; I don't think it's the right tool 
for the job.

-Neil


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