Re: Need a better name for MinMax indexes

If this is going to be the start of a new type of index then maybe that's how you market it ie. part of a suite, or class, of optimized indexes.

Robert Bernier 

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  Original Message  
From: Josh Berkus
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 6:17 PM
To: Jonathan S. Katz
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Need a better name for MinMax indexes

On 06/17/2014 02:43 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> One of the features for 9.5 will likely be "minmax" indexes, which are
>> indexes which index only the upper and lower bounds of each data page,
>> making for a very compact index ... like 100MB for a 100GB table.
>>
>> The working name for these are "minmax" indexes which is not very
>> compelling and unlikely to reach users for how cool and useful they are.
>> Suggestions on an alternate name?
>
> At the risk of sounding trite and clichéd: "big data index" or "big table index" - after all, it is an index that you want to use on a big table.

Except that these likely aren't going to be the only "big data indexes"
we ever have.

Maybe "Compressed Range Indexes"? Pretty wordy, though.

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