Re: plans for bitmap indexes?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Yann Michel <yann-postgresql(at)spline(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: plans for bitmap indexes?
Date: 2004-10-07 22:54:15
Message-ID: 200410072254.i97MsF304599@candle.pha.pa.us
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Yann Michel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to know if there are any plans on introducing bitmap indexes
> into postgresql. I think this could mean a big performance improvement
> especially for datawarehousing applications. I know that there is an
> index type hash but I don't know how both types are comparable due to
> they are both best usable for equality expressions.

Lots of people have talked about it but I don't know anyone coding it.
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