Re: Minmax indexes

From: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: 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 16:29:07
Message-ID: CAGTBQpawjqS-jz31g-W+EJ1g+ic0mouARerCWdxWTUgSBWi0+w@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> "Summary" seems good. If I get enough votes I can change it to that.
>
> CREATE INDEX foo ON t USING summary (cols)
>
> "Summarizing" seems weird on that command. Not sure about "compressed
> range", as you would have to use an abbreviation or run the words
> together.

Summarizing index sounds better to my ears, but both ideas based on
"summary" are quite succint and to-the-point descriptions of what's
happening, so I vote for those.

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