Re: [HACKERS] Question about indexes

2004-01-29 Thread lnd
A small comment on Oracle's implementation of persistent bitmap indexes: Oracle's bitmap index is concurently locked by DML, i.e. it suites for OLAP (basically read only data warehouses) but in no way for OLTP. IMHO, Laimis > Maybe the lack of heap/btree consistent ordering in Oracle > and t

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] tablespaces a priority for 7.5?

2004-01-22 Thread lnd
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Lane > The current thought is to add some sort of hook that allows a > user-defined action to be taken at the point where a WAL file > would normally get recycled. Presumably this action would > involve copying the WAL file to someplace else (eg a t