Re: Bitmap Indexes: request for feedback - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Bitmap Indexes: request for feedback
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Msg-id 6412.1224678703@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Bitmap Indexes: request for feedback  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 00:00 +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
>> When we last left our heros they were proposing ways to refactor the index api
>> to allow index ams to stream results to the executor in bitmap form.

> The indexAM API has now been changed, so that is a simple matter now.

No, that was merely one component of the problem.  The APIs for
tidbitmaps need revision too.  You can't "stream" a bitmap yet.
        regards, tom lane


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