On Jun 17, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> One of the features for 9.5 will likely be "minmax" indexes, which are
> indexes which index only the upper and lower bounds of each data page,
> making for a very compact index ... like 100MB for a 100GB table.
>
> The working name for these are "minmax" indexes which is not very
> compelling and unlikely to reach users for how cool and useful they are.
> Suggestions on an alternate name?
At the risk of sounding trite and clichéd: "big data index" or "big table index" - after all, it is an index that you want to use on a big table.
Jonathan