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Re:Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: First Glance by atombender on Monday May 04, 2020 @10:50AM (#23068723)
No. Postgres has in-memory bitmap indexes, which are built on the fly while scanning the index and used to more efficiently combine AND/OR clauses, but that's not quite the same thing. There have been several attempts at adding on-disk bitmap index support to Postgres, but they've all been abandoned.
Re:Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: First Glance by anarazel on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:45AM (#23069377)
BRIN indexes are kind of bitmap like...