Re: plans for bitmap indexes?

From: Reini Urban <rurban(at)x-ray(dot)at>
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Subject: Re: plans for bitmap indexes?
Date: 2004-10-07 20:41:04
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Yann Michel schrieb:
> 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.

Sure, and the next will come with musicbrainz.
Why not :)
If you don't want to code that in the app, the database backend is the
solution. The database is the golden hammer.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GoldenHammer
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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