Re: Minmax indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Minmax indexes
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Msg-id 53E41E2F.9040705@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Minmax indexes  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 08/07/2014 08:38 AM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> +1 for BRIN !
> 
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> On 7 August 2014 14:53, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A better description would be "block range index" since we are
>> indexing a range of blocks (not just one block). Perhaps a better one
>> would be simply "range index", which we could abbreviate to RIN or
>> BRIN.

How about Block Range Dynamic indexes?

Or Range Usage Metadata indexes?

You see what I'm getting at:

BRanDy

RUM

... to keep with our "new indexes" naming scheme ...


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Josh Berkus
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