Re: Including a sample Table Access Method with core code

>
> > Included Mark Dilger directly to this mail as he mentioned he has a
> > Perl script that makes a functional copy of heap AM that can be
> > compiled as installed as custom AM.
>
> Similar discussion has happened in 640c198 related to the creation of
> dummy_index_am, where the argument is that such a module needs to
> provide value in testing some of the core internals.  dummy_index_am
> did so for reloptions on indexes because there was not much coverage
> for that part of the system.
>
> > @mark - maybe you can create 3 boilerplate Table AMs for the above
> > named `mem_am`, `overlay_am` and `py3_am` and we could put them
> > somewhere for interested parties to play with ?
>
> Not sure if that's worth counting, but I also have a table AM template
> stored in my plugin repo:
> https://github.com/michaelpq/pg_plugins/tree/main/blackhole_am
>

And based on your `blackhole_am` I've sent a patch [1] to add a
`dummy_table_am` for testing purposes.

Regards,

[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFcNs+pcU2ib=jvjNZNboD+M2tHO+vD77C_YZJ2rsGR0Tp35mg@mail.gmail.com

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