Re: [HACKERS] Block B-tree etc. (was Re: Introducing an advanced Frequent

2006-11-07 Thread Luke Lonergan
Heikki,

On 11/7/06 1:51 AM, "Heikki Linnakangas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I don't think Simon's proposal is meant to address that issue, but did
> you follow the thread I started in September about Block B-Tree index:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg02041.php

Aha - mystery solved - thanks for the clarification.

  Block Btree ~= Lossy Btree

- Luke



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Re: [HACKERS] Block B-tree etc. (was Re: Introducing an advanced Frequent Update)

2006-11-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Luke,

> That's our plan to achieve speedups that other DBMS's have achieved with
> Index-Organized-Tables or Clustered Indexes. We're running initial
> performance tests of it as we speak, and if all goes well we're hoping
> to get that into PostgreSQL 8.3.

Also, if the EDB folks weren't clear, the two proposals are meant to 
compliment each other.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

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