On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Jie Zhang wrote: > Hi, > > I have posted a patch to the CVS head for on-disk bitmap index to > pgsql-patches. If this can get in 8.2, that would be great. Any comments and > suggestions are welcome. > > I still need to add several items: > > (1) README file in src/backend/access/bitmap. > (2) Bitmap index documentation. > (3) Hiding the internal btree. > > Also, I have disabled the multi-column index support because there is a > known problem. Assume that there is a bitmap index on a and b. When a query > predicate has only a, the current code may generate a wrong result. That's > because the current code assumes that b is null. The ultimate problem is > because the search code only handles one bitmap vector now. I need a fix to > support manipulating multiple bitmap vectors. > > If you find any other problems, please let me know.
Is anyone else looking at this patch? I am reviewing it with Jie, tidying it up and trying to solve some of the problems mentioned above. If anyone wants to take a look at us, please ask for an updated patch. Thanks, Gavin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq