Re: Minmax indexes

From: Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Nicolas Barbier <nicolas(dot)barbier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Minmax indexes
Date: 2014-08-07 18:23:45
Message-ID: 53E3C431.80402@2ndquadrant.com
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On 07/08/14 16:16, Simon Riggs wrote:
>
> A better description would be "block range index" since we are
> indexing a range of blocks (not just one block). Perhaps a better one
> would be simply "range index", which we could abbreviate to RIN or
> BRIN.
>

+1 for block range index (BRIN)

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