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