PostgreSQL TODO List
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
-Last updated: Sat Dec 17 09:18:30 EST 2005
+Last updated: Sat Dec 17 11:43:02 EST 2005
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
* Log statements where the optimizer row estimates were dramatically
different from the number of rows actually found?
+* Allow star join optimizations
+
+ While our bitmap scan allows multiple indexes to be joined to get
+ to heap rows, a star joins allows multiple dimension _tables_ to
+ be joined to index into a larger main fact table. The join is
+ usually performed by either creating a cartesian product of all
+ the dimmension tables and doing a single join on that product or
+ using subselects to create bitmaps of each dimmension table match
+ and merge the bitmaps to perform the join on the fact table.
Miscellaneous Performance
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<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: Sat Dec 17 09:18:30 EST 2005
+Last updated: Sat Dec 17 11:43:02 EST 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>.
</p>
</li><li>Log statements where the optimizer row estimates were dramatically
different from the number of rows actually found?
+ </li><li>Allow star join optimizations
+<p> While our bitmap scan allows multiple indexes to be joined to get
+ to heap rows, a star joins allows multiple dimension _tables_ to
+ be joined to index into a larger main fact table. The join is
+ usually performed by either creating a cartesian product of all
+ the dimmension tables and doing a single join on that product or
+ using subselects to create bitmaps of each dimmension table match
+ and merge the bitmaps to perform the join on the fact table.
+</p>
</li></ul>
<h1><a name="section_21">Miscellaneous Performance</a></h1>