Add mention of possible patent problems with star joins, per Joshua

Drake:

<   and merge the bitmaps to perform the join on the fact table.
>   and merge the bitmaps to perform the join on the fact table.  Some
>   of these algorithms might be patented.

diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index 1b9b4f83de02c98ad93d494e0b979b6fa07361ed..82d20f035576a4555409a23e5bd8fd56f26d4409 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 PostgreSQL TODO List
 ====================
 Current maintainer:    Bruce Momjian ([email protected])
-Last updated:      Sat Dec 17 11:43:02 EST 2005
+Last updated:      Sat Dec 17 12:03:45 EST 2005
 
 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -1036,7 +1036,8 @@ Optimizer / Executor
   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.
+  and merge the bitmaps to perform the join on the fact table.  Some
+  of these algorithms might be patented.
 
 
 Miscellaneous Performance

diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
index ef8a024fb11141d7249f0769e27e9aa45340446f..399b8250f5b9912f3bffbe10e9ea0dd8ef385d84 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
+++ b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 PostgreSQL TODO List
 Current maintainer:     Bruce Momjian ([email protected])
-Last updated:           Sat Dec 17 11:43:02 EST 2005
+Last updated:           Sat Dec 17 12:03:45 EST 2005
 
 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -940,7 +940,8 @@ first.
   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.
+  and merge the bitmaps to perform the join on the fact table.  Some
+  of these algorithms might be patented.
 
 
 Miscellaneous Performance