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Subject: Re: On-disk bitmap index patch
From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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Ühel kenal päeval, R, 2006-07-28 kell 16:25, kirjutas Bruce Momjian:
> What we don't want to happen is for us to release bitmapped indexes, and
> find out later that btree is better in all cases.  

Actually I'd love it if adding bitmap indexes to core pg would magically
make btree several times faster for the cases where bitmap indexes are
faster now :)

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