This is a good email.
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Shahbaz
> Chaudhary
> Sent: Monday, 30 December 2002 5:44 AM
> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: [HACKERS] BITMAP Index support (and other DSS info.)
>
>
> Hi all,
> I've recently started using Postgresql and am impressed with how
> complete an RDBMS system it really is. It seems that while some
> corporations may balk at using it for day to day operational use,
> bringing in PGSQL for a more niche use will allow many professionals to
> see its potential.
>
> One such niche market is decision support systems (DSS). Doing
> something like Sybase IQ on PGSQL (bitmap/bitwise index) would greatly
> help exposure. I noticed that adding BITMAP index is not only on the
> TODO list but has also been discussed quite a bit in the past. I'm not
> sure if any one has seen this
> http://www.it.iitb.ernet.in/~rvijay/dbms/proj/ , a bitmap index
> implementation using GiST! I, my self, run a DB (about 2 GIG and
> growing) with over ten million rows...and the need to be responsive
> enough to be used on the web. This would be great.
>
> I haven't seen this in any of the mailing lists, a new book "PostgreSQL"
> by Korry Douglas (comes out in februrary '03)
> (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735712573/qid=1041197382
> /sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_8/104-4850283-3895915?v=glance&s=books) which explains
> the internals of PostgreSQL ...good for people who would like to
> contribute to this project but haven't done hardcore C/C++ programming
> since college (like myself).
>
> There are bound to be people in the academia (grad students, professors
> of CS, etc.) on this mailing list, yet I see few RDBMS courses using
> postgresql as an example. If people still have connections to
> universities, it would seem that inviting researchers to use PGSQL for
> their experiments will quickly make it comparable to Oracle/etc. This
> would be specifically helpful for adding capabilities that are not
> considered top priority (time-series DBs...I work in a fiancial firm and
> trust me when I say that they spend HUGE amounts of money on software
> that does nothing more than what postgresql developers could add:
> ordered set of tuples, link to data streams, memory based tables, etc.)
>
> Any way, I hope this isn't considered off-topic :).
>
> Shahbaz C.
>
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