From: | "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com> |
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To: | "Luke Lonergan" <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, "Jie Zhang" <jzhang(at)greenplum(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Mark Kirkwood" <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>, "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Gavin Sherry" <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: On-disk bitmap index patch |
Date: | 2006-07-28 20:02:32 |
Message-ID: | D425483C2C5C9F49B5B7A41F8944154757DAC7@postal.corporate.connx.com |
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-
> owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Luke Lonergan
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 12:18 PM
> To: Jim C. Nasby; Jie Zhang
> Cc: Tom Lane; Mark Kirkwood; Josh Berkus; Gavin Sherry; pgsql-
> hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] On-disk bitmap index patch
>
> Jim,
>
> On 7/28/06 10:17 AM, "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > If the usefulness of bitmap indexes is still in doubt, could someone
at
> > Greenplum provide data from actual data warehouses from actual
> > customers?
>
> First, is anyone in doubt?
Others have looked into the usefulness of bitmap indexes. Here is what
they found:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/sharma_indexes.html
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/stockinger02bitmap.html
Oracle, IBM, and even Microsoft[1] supports them. Probably not just to
be trendy.
[1] Microsoft SQL Server creates temporary bitmap indexes during some
queries, though you cannot declaratively create a bitmap index.
> - Luke
>
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