Re: Minmax indexes

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Minmax indexes
Date: 2014-08-06 16:35:17
Message-ID: 20140806163517.GN13302@momjian.us
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On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 01:31:14PM -0300, Claudio Freire wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > CREATE INDEX foo ON t USING crange (cols) -- misspelling of "cringe"?
> > CREATE INDEX foo ON t USING comprange (cols)
> > CREATE INDEX foo ON t USING compressedrng (cols) -- ugh
> > -- or use an identifier with whitespace:
> > CREATE INDEX foo ON t USING "compressed range" (cols)
>
>
> The word you'd use there is not necessarily the one you use on the
> framework, since the framework applies to many such techniques, but
> the index type there is one specific one.

"Block filter" indexes?

> The create command can still use minmax, or rangemap if you prefer
> that, while the framework's code uses summary or summarizing.

"Summary" sounds like materialized views to me.

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