Re: Bitmap Indexes patch

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 23:28 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 17:37 -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
>> 
>> > There are a lot of comments in the code which imply that vacuuming is
>> > not implemented but in fact from what I can see it is -- sort of. It
>> > does rewrite the bitmap in bmbulkdelete but it doesn't have to rebuild
>> > the index from scratch.  Are the comments out of date or am i
>> > misunderstanding them or the code? How complete is the vacuum
>> > implementation?
>> 
>> As I understood it, complete. 
>
> Looking at the code, it looks like my understanding was complete-ly
> wrong and your comments seem accurate.

What I would appreciate is a README explaining how vacuum and vacuum full
work.

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