Re: bitmapscan test, no success, bs is not faster

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> Pavel Stehule <stehule@kix.fsv.cvut.cz> writes:
> > I tested bitmap scan and maybe I didnt find good examples, but with bitmap 
> > scan is slower than hashjoin. Only when I use non otiptimized SELECT bps 
> > was little bit faster. All my SELECTs are equal.
> 
> Bitmap scans can't possibly be any faster for cases where the indexscan
> only fetches one row, which is true of all your test cases AFAICS.

yes, it's true. I found some selects where the benefit of bitmap scans is 
more clearly. There is only one small problem - optimizer didn't 
have to choose plan with bitmap scan in my examples. 

Thank you for explication, 
Regards
Pavel Stehule