Re: plans for bitmap indexes?

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Yann Michel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:09:18AM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>> I think what Reini was asking was why do you think you need bitmap
>> indexes as opposed to any existing type?
>
> due to I'm developing a datawarehousing application we have lots of
> fact-data in our central fact-table. As I know how to improve
> performance on Oracle based datawarehouses, I'm used to add bitmap
> indexes for atributes having only a few distinct values.
> So I was looking for any comparable indexing technology but didn't find
> any so far.

Yann, you may try our contrib/intarray module

>
> Regards,
> Yann
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Oleg
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