Re: Old-style OR indexscan slated for destruction

From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Old-style OR indexscan slated for destruction
Date: 2005-04-24 20:45:23
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.62.0504250044550.4489@ra.sai.msu.su
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> I am about to rip out the code that supports multiple indexscans for OR
> conditions inside a single IndexScan plan node. As best I can tell,
> the new-style bitmap-OR code is as fast or faster than the old way
> even in fully cached test cases (ie, with no allowance for improved
> efficiency of disk access). So there's no percentage in maintaining
> support for the old way, and getting rid of it will allow simplification
> of code and data structures in the planner.

very good, Tom !

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Regards,
Oleg
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