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Re: Implementing Bitmap Indexes

This is a discussion on Re: Implementing Bitmap Indexes within the pgsql Hackers forums, part of the PostgreSQL category; --> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:46:44 +0000, Mike Rylander <mrylander@gmail.com> wrote : > For on-disk bitmap indexes, yes. I ...


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Old 04-11-2008, 03:32 AM
Pawel Niewiadomski
 
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:46:44 +0000, Mike Rylander <mrylander@gmail.com> wrote :

> For on-disk bitmap indexes, yes. I don't see any reason this couldn't
> be done with GiST, perhaps even as a generalization of the index stuff
> in the int_array contrib module.


I was thinking about playing with the core
source of PostgreSQL and creating patches, GiST as I read
has some limitations that I want to overcome. Speaking about
my idea - I was thinking about implementing on-disk indexes, not in
memory. I think having both of them would be great :-)

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