Re: On-disk bitmap index patch

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Luke Lonergan <LLonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>
Cc: mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Jie Zhang <jzhang(at)greenplum(dot)com>, 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: 2006-07-29 13:31:31
Message-ID: 200607291331.k6TDVV415624@momjian.us
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Luke Lonergan wrote:
> Mark,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc [mailto:mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc]
> > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 9:26 PM
> >
> > But irrefutable? Irrefutable is not true. :-)
>
> How about unrefuted. The evidence has not been refuted, and not
> directly discussed or discounted.
>
> BTREE can not be optimized to produce the results we've presented, the
> discussion about char(n) datatypes was irrelevant as we had shown
> results for INT, numeric and char/varchar and they were all dramatically
> better than BTREE.
>
> I am hopeful this discussion takes a rapid turn toward the quantitative
> assessment of the results.

Right. People need a patch to test on their workloads, and analysis can
be done after feature freeze.

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