Re: GIN vs. Partial Indexes

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
Subject: Re: GIN vs. Partial Indexes
Date: 2010-11-12 18:14:51
Message-ID: 4CDD841B.5090202@dunslane.net
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 11/12/2010 01:11 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> On 10/08/2010 02:44 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>>> In any case, I would expect that GIN could actually do this quite
>>>> efficiently. What we'd probably want is a concept of a "null word",
>>>> with empty indexable rows entered in the index as if they contained the
>>>> null word. So there'd be just one index entry with a posting list of
>>>> however many such rows there are.
>> So, given the lack of objections to this idea, do we have a plan for
>> fixing GIN?
> Is this a TODO?

Yes.

cheers

andrew

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Bruce Momjian 2010-11-12 18:16:02 Re: GIN vs. Partial Indexes
Previous Message Bruce Momjian 2010-11-12 18:11:06 Re: GIN vs. Partial Indexes