Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote: > > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here is a small list of big TODO items. I was wondering which ones > > people were thinking about for 7.2? > > A friend of mine wants to use PostgreSQL instead of Oracle for a large > application, but has run into a snag when speed comparisons looked > good until the Oracle folks added a couple of BITMAP indexes. I can't > recall seeing any discussion about that here -- are there any plans? I have tried to bring this up in several different forms, and hardly ever get a nibble. Bitmap indexes are great for text searching. Perhaps you can use "fulltextindex" in the contrib directory. It isn't as fast as a bitmap index, and the syntax would be different, but it would be perform better. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl
