diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO index fcc8007806..533e7ec9b8 100644 --- a/doc/TODO +++ b/doc/TODO @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ TODO list for PostgreSQL Bracketed items "[]" have more detail. Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) -Last updated: Tue Nov 9 11:50:52 EST 2004 +Last updated: Tue Nov 9 21:48:31 EST 2004 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at the PostgreSQL web site, http://www.PostgreSQL.org. @@ -256,7 +256,10 @@ Indexes indexes to dynamically create a composite index to match a specific query. Each index is a bitmap, and the bitmaps are bitwise AND'ed or OR'ed to be combined. They can index by tid or can be lossy requiring a scan of the - heap page to find matching rows. + heap page to find matching rows, or perhaps use a mixed solution where + tids are recorded for pages with only a few matches and per-page bitmaps + are used for more dense pages. Another idea is to use a 32-bit bitmap + for every page and set a bit based on the item number mod(32). * Allow the creation of on-disk bitmap indexes which can be quickly combined with other bitmap indexes