Re: No heap lookups on index
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: David Scott <davids@apptechsys.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-01-19T07:26:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes: > I wonder if the bitmap can actually be one bit per page actually. Yeah, I think we'd agreed that per-page was the way to go. Per-tuple bitmaps are painful to manage because of the variable number of tuples per page. And really all you need to know is whether to read the page or not --- once you have, examining multiple tuples on it doesn't cost much. regards, tom lane