Re: encourging bitmap AND

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 22:52, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Ben <midfield(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> i have a schema similar to the following
>
>> create index foo_s_idx on foo using btree (s);
>> create index foo_e_idx on foo using btree (e);
>
>> i want to do queries like
>
>> select * from foo where 150 between s and e;
>
> That index structure is really entirely unsuited to what you want to do,
> so it's not surprising that the planner isn't impressed with the idea of
> a bitmap AND.

Why is it unsuited for this query? It expands to (150 < s AND 150 > e)
which should work nicely with bitmap AND as far as I can tell.

Regards,
Marti