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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Pål Stenslet <paal.stenslet@exie.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Should Oracle outperform PostgreSQL on a complex
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:21:04 +0000
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On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 11:10 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> >>I found these two papers whilst browsing:
> >>
> >>
> >>http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs227/Papers/Indexing/O'NeilGraefe.pdf
> >>http://www.dama.upc.edu/downloads/jaguilar-2005-4.pdf
> >>
> >>
> >>They seem to be describing a more subtle method making use of join 
> >>indexes and bitmapped indexes.
> > 
> > 
> > Which is the option (2) I described.
> > 
> 
> Ok - I misunderstood you on this one, and thought you were describing 
> the "star transformation" - upon re-reading, I see that yes, it's more 
> or less a description of the O'Neil Graefe method.

Papers look interesting; I'd not seen them. My knowledge of this is
mostly practical.

O'Neil and Graefe seem to be talking about using join indexes, which is
probably method (3)... oh lordy. 

Best Regards, Simon Riggs

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