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.
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PostgreSQL TODO List
====================
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
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.
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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

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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#FF0000" vlink="#A00000" alink="#0000FF">
<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 11:43:02 EST 2005
Last updated: Sat Dec 17 12:03:45 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>.
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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.
</p>
</li></ul>
<h1><a name="section_21">Miscellaneous Performance</a></h1>