Remove item:

< * 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.  Some
<   of these algorithms might be patented.

diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index 307029900056d96827fa43aaa743d539b0034e72..24f8e250f03f740bb4293ce5cb3605f11b26ca5c 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 13:06:57 EST 2005
+Last updated:      Sat Dec 17 14:03:20 EST 2005
 
 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -1029,16 +1029,6 @@ Optimizer / Executor
 
 * 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.  Some
-  of these algorithms might be patented.
 
 
 Miscellaneous Performance

diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html b/doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
index 80247626b5171b724d32a0f3f9af00a9f2acda68..32add687d56610bd7271cdd2cb5a7738abadb9e5 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 13:06:57 EST 2005
+Last updated:           Sat Dec 17 14:03:20 EST 2005
 
 The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
@@ -934,16 +934,6 @@ first.
 
   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.  Some
-  of these algorithms might be patented.
-
 
 Miscellaneous Performance