Re: Bitmap index status

Gavin Sherry wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't want to harass you :), but what's the status with the bitmap
> > index code? Is there something I can do to help?
> >
> 
> Hi Heikki,
> 
> The streaming is implemented, as are range queries. I need to bring it up
> to HEAD and back-patch to bizgres since... it's not diverged fairly
> significantly from that code base.
> 
> Two outstanding items are handling vacuum and I was considering having a
> bitmap selectivity function but I haven't really looked into it.
> 
> Once I bring it up to HEAD I'll post.

Code promises for this feature have been unreliable in the past.  :-(

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