Re: Need a better name for MinMax indexes

On 06/17/2014 02:43 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
>> One of the features for 9.5 will likely be "minmax" indexes, which are
>> indexes which index only the upper and lower bounds of each data page,
>> making for a very compact index ... like 100MB for a 100GB table.
>>
>> The working name for these are "minmax" indexes which is not very
>> compelling and unlikely to reach users for how cool and useful they are.
>> Suggestions on an alternate name?
>
> At the risk of sounding trite and clichéd: "big data index" or "big table index" - after all, it is an index that you
wantto use on a big table. 

Except that these likely aren't going to be the only "big data indexes"
we ever have.

Maybe "Compressed Range Indexes"?  Pretty wordy, though.

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