Re: Experiences of PostgreSQL on-disk bitmap index patch

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Christan Josefsson <cjosefsson(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Experiences of PostgreSQL on-disk bitmap index patch
Date: 2007-06-20 21:23:41
Message-ID: 46799ADD.2050500@commandprompt.com
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Christan Josefsson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm working on building a PostgreSQL based data warehouse, and I'm thus
> very interested in any experiences and usage of the PostgreSQL bitmap
> index patches (which I've found on pgsql-patches).
>
> Anyone using these patchese on production systems?
> Anyone know if the patches run on latest stable 8.2?
> Issues applying the patch to latest 8.2 source?
> Other experiences of the patches?

They work against -HEAD.
They are not finished.
They have not been tested.
They do not support Vacuum.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> If there's any PgSQL developer reading this - when can on-disk bitmap
> indexes be expected to be included in stable PostgreSQL versions?
>
> Thank you folks!
>
> Best regards,
> Christian

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