On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > For me minmax indexes are helpful because they allow to generate *small* > 'coarse' indexes over large volumes of data. From my pov that's possible > possible because they don't contain item pointers for every contained > row.
But minmax is just a specific form of bloom filter. This could certainly be generalized to a bloom filter index with some set of bloom&hashing operators (minmax being just one). -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
