Re: bitmap AM design

From: Pailloncy Jean-Gerard <jg(at)rilk(dot)com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Victor Y(dot) Yegorov" <viy(at)mits(dot)lv>
Subject: Re: bitmap AM design
Date: 2005-03-04 08:38:29
Message-ID: 80e9e161701af8ca4cf0acb7e8e873f2@rilk.com
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Le 2 mars 05, à 21:17, Hannu Krosing a écrit :

> Ühel kenal päeval (teisipäev, 1. märts 2005, 14:54-0500), kirjutas
> pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com:
>> Now, it occurs to me that if my document reference table can refer to
>> something other than an indexed primary key, I can save a lot of index
>> processing time in PostgreSQL if I can have a "safe" analogy to CTID.
>
> I guess you could work on making hash indexes better (for concurrent
> access).
You should have a look to this thread
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-02/msg00263.php

Take a look at this paper about "lock-free parallel hash table"
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~wim/mechver/hashtable/

> 'a "safe" analogy to CTID' looks remarkably like hash index
>
> --
> Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>

Cordialement,
Jean-Gérard Pailloncy

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