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Re: WIP: Access method extendability

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-10-28T17:45:36Z
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On 28 October 2014 17:06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> My own thought is that allowing external AMs is simply a natural
> consequence of PG's general approach to extensibility, and it would
> be surprising if we were to decide we didn't want to allow that.

If it wasn't clear from my two earlier attempts, yes, +1 to that.

I'd like to avoid all of the pain by making persistent AMs that are
recoverable after a crash, rather than during crash recovery.

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Commits

  1. Support CREATE ACCESS METHOD

  2. Restructure index access method API to hide most of it at the C level.