Re: Implementing Bitmap Indexes

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:46:44 +0000, Mike Rylander <mrylander(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote :

> For on-disk bitmap indexes, yes. I don't see any reason this couldn't
> be done with GiST, perhaps even as a generalization of the index stuff
> in the int_array contrib module.

I was thinking about playing with the core
source of PostgreSQL and creating patches, GiST as I read
has some limitations that I want to overcome. Speaking about
my idea - I was thinking about implementing on-disk indexes, not in
memory. I think having both of them would be great :-)

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