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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2005-10-07 14:04:19 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2005-10-07 14:04:19 +0000
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< * Consider compressing indexes by storing key prefix values shared by > * Consider compressing indexes by storing key values duplicated in 735a736,737 > > This is difficult because it requires datatype-specific knowledge.
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diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
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PostgreSQL TODO List
====================
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
-Last updated: Thu Oct 6 22:43:58 EDT 2005
+Last updated: Fri Oct 7 10:04:19 EDT 2005
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -731,9 +731,11 @@ Indexes
it to be used for all queries with little performance impact
* Allow CREATE INDEX to take an additional parameter for use with
special index types
-* Consider compressing indexes by storing key prefix values shared by
+* Consider compressing indexes by storing key values duplicated in
several rows as a single index entry
+ This is difficult because it requires datatype-specific knowledge.
+
* GIST
diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
index 931d359decb..28ac0a2783d 100644
--- a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
+++ b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#FF0000" vlink="#A00000" alink="#0000FF">
<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</a>)<br/>
-Last updated: Thu Oct 6 22:43:58 EDT 2005
+Last updated: Fri Oct 7 10:04:19 EDT 2005
</p>
<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.
@@ -666,8 +666,10 @@ first.
it to be used for all queries with little performance impact
</li><li>Allow CREATE INDEX to take an additional parameter for use with
special index types
- </li><li>Consider compressing indexes by storing key prefix values shared by
+ </li><li>Consider compressing indexes by storing key values duplicated in
several rows as a single index entry
+<p> This is difficult because it requires datatype-specific knowledge.
+</p>
</li><li>GIST
<ul>
<li>Add more GIST index support for geometric data types