Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> ORing and ANDing of such bitmaps still works, with the understanding >> that it's lossy and you have to double check each retrieved tuple.
> That would make it really hard to ever clear the bits. We're speaking of in-memory bitmaps constructed on-the-fly here. You're right that it wouldn't work for persistent indexes, but I'm not very interested in that case at the moment ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend