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Re: Big 7.1 open items

Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>

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From: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>
Date: 2000-06-19T00:12:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
At 08:08 PM 6/18/00 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>> Does your proposal break the smgr abstraction, i.e. does it
>> preclude later efforts to (say) implement an (optional) 
>> raw-device storage manager?
>
>Seeing very few want that done, I don't see it as an issue at this
>point.

Sorry, I disagree.  There's excuse for breaking existing abstractions
unless there's a compelling reason to do so.

My question should make it clear I was using a raw-device storage
manager as an example.  There are other possbilities, like a 
many-tables-per-file storage manager.



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