Re: Bitmap index thoughts

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:16:54PM +1100, Gavin Sherry wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > But actually I'm not convinced we need to worry about efficient storage
> > of small bitmaps at all. The typical use case for bitmap indexes is
> > large tables with small number of distinct values, and the problem
> > doesn't really arise in that scenario. Let's keep it simple for now, we
> > can enhance it in later releases.
> The scenario I'm concerned about is where a sales data base, say, has
> 100,000 products. However, only 500 or 1000 products are popular. They
> dominate, say >99% of the sales. The other 99,900 products consume a
> little bit over 8K each for very little benefit :-(.
> This is pretty contrived but it seem real world enough...

Seems like a good candidate for CREATE INDEX WHERE :-)

I wonder what would happen if somebody implemented automatic index
exclusion conditions after use of an INDEX proved to be in the realm
of the worst case scenario? :-)

Cheers,
mark

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