Simon Riggs wrote:
> Preventing work on new indexes by non-committers has meant that Bitmap
> indexes, which first came out in 2005 have not been usable with
> Postgres. That forced people *away* from Postgres towards Bizgres. Lack
> of Bitmap indexes is a huge issue for many people. It's 2009 now and it
> seems probable that without this patch it will be 2010 at least before
> they see BMIs, and later still before they see other index types.
No-one is preventing anyone from working on bitmap indexes.
Bitmap indexes required other backend changes, in addition to the rmgr
changes. This rmgr plugin patch is *not* sufficient to enable bitmap
indexes to live as a plugin.
This patch does *not* bring us any closer to having bitmap indexes.
Don't raise false hopes.
-- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com