Re: Bloom index

> So for example if your bloom filter is 4 bits per column your error
> rate for a single column where clause will be 1/2^(4/1.44) or a little
> worse than returning 1 record in 7. If you test two or three columns
> then it'll be about 1 in 49 or 1 in 343.

Hmm, I don't understand your calculations. In your example (4 bits per column, 
index has only one column) each row is hashed by 4 bits in 80-bit vector 
(signature), so, probability of collision is (1/80)^4

>
> Also, as it stands now it's an unordered list. I assume you have no
> plans to implement vacuum for this? Perhaps it would be better to
> store a btree of signatures ordered by htid. That would let you easily
> vacuum dead entries. Though it would necessitate random seeks to do
> the full scan of the index unless you can solve the full index scan
> concurrent with page splits problem.

Vacuum is already implemented by producing a full scan of index like all other 
indexes.
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