| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Pluggable Indexes (was Re: rmgr hooks (v2)) |
| Date: | 2009-01-22 08:09:25 |
| Message-ID: | 497829B5.6060401@enterprisedb.com |
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> Preventing work on new indexes by non-committers has meant that Bitmap
> indexes, which first came out in 2005 have not been usable with
> Postgres. That forced people *away* from Postgres towards Bizgres. Lack
> of Bitmap indexes is a huge issue for many people. It's 2009 now and it
> seems probable that without this patch it will be 2010 at least before
> they see BMIs, and later still before they see other index types.
No-one is preventing anyone from working on bitmap indexes.
Bitmap indexes required other backend changes, in addition to the rmgr
changes. This rmgr plugin patch is *not* sufficient to enable bitmap
indexes to live as a plugin.
This patch does *not* bring us any closer to having bitmap indexes.
Don't raise false hopes.
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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