On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Jesper Krogh <jes...@krogh.cc> wrote: > On 2010-10-13 15:28, Robert Haas wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Neil Whelchel<neil.whelc...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> I might go as far as to rattle the cage of the developers to see if it >>> makes >>> any sense to add some column oriented storage capability to Postgres. >>> That >>> would be the hot ticket to be able to specify an attribute on a column so >>> that >>> the back end could shadow or store a column in a column oriented table so >>> aggregate functions could work on them with good efficiency, or is that >>> an >>> INDEX? >>> >> >> I'd love to work on that, but without funding it's tough to find the >> time. It's a big project. >> > > Is it hugely different from just getting the visibillity map suitable > for doing index-only scans and extracting values from the index > directly as Heikki has explained?]
I think that there's a lot more to a real column-oriented database than index-only scans, although, of course, index-only scans are very important. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
