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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2005-04-21 19:18:13 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2005-04-21 19:18:13 +0000
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Rethink original decision to use AND/OR Expr nodes to represent bitmap
logic operations during planning. Seems cleaner to create two new Path node types, instead --- this avoids duplication of cost-estimation code. Also, create an enable_bitmapscan GUC parameter to control use of bitmap plans.
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml23
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index e5567abf279..72bc1ff17e3 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.313 2005/04/08 00:59:57 neilc Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.314 2005/04/21 19:18:12 tgl Exp $
-->
<chapter Id="runtime">
@@ -1768,6 +1768,22 @@ archive_command = 'copy "%p" /mnt/server/archivedir/"%f"' # Windows
</para>
<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry id="guc-enable-bitmapscan" xreflabel="enable_bitmapscan">
+ <term><varname>enable_bitmapscan</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>bitmap scan</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary><varname>enable_bitmapscan</> configuration parameter</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enables or disables the query planner's use of bitmap-scan plan
+ types. The default is on.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry id="guc-enable-hashagg" xreflabel="enable_hashagg">
<term><varname>enable_hashagg</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
<indexterm>
@@ -4094,7 +4110,7 @@ plruby.bar = true # generates error, unknown class name
<row>
<entry>
- <option>-fi</option>, <option>-fh</option>,
+ <option>-fb</option>, <option>-fh</option>, <option>-fi</option>,
<option>-fm</option>, <option>-fn</option>,
<option>-fs</option>, <option>-ft</option><footnote
id="fn.runtime-config-short">
@@ -4111,8 +4127,9 @@ $ <userinput>postmaster -o '-S 1024 -s'</userinput>
</footnote>
</entry>
<entry>
- <literal>enable_indexscan = off</>,
+ <literal>enable_bitmapscan = off</>,
<literal>enable_hashjoin = off</>,
+ <literal>enable_indexscan = off</>,
<literal>enable_mergejoin = off</>,
<literal>enable_nestloop = off</>,
<literal>enable_seqscan = off</>,