Re: Pluggable Indexes (was Re: rmgr hooks (v2))

Simon Riggs wrote:
> Preventing work on new indexes by non-committers has meant that Bitmap
> indexes, which first came out in 2005 have not been usable with
> Postgres. That forced people *away* from Postgres towards Bizgres. Lack
> of Bitmap indexes is a huge issue for many people. It's 2009 now and it
> seems probable that without this patch it will be 2010 at least before
> they see BMIs, and later still before they see other index types.

No-one is preventing anyone from working on bitmap indexes.

Bitmap indexes required other backend changes, in addition to the rmgr 
changes. This rmgr plugin patch is *not* sufficient to enable bitmap 
indexes to live as a plugin.

This patch does *not* bring us any closer to having bitmap indexes. 
Don't raise false hopes.

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