Re: Sequence Access Method WIP

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
wrote:

> Petr Jelinek wrote:
> > On 29 January 2016 at 14:48, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>
> > > Uh, what?  Surely we would provide a bespoke command for each possible
> > > sort of handler.  As an example, CREATE INDEX ACCESS METHOD ought to
> check
> > > that the provided function has the right signature, and then it would
> put
> > > the correct amkind into the pg_am entry automatically.
>
> I'm thinking we'd do CREATE ACCESS METHOD foobar TYPE INDEX or something
> like that.
>

Ok! Let's nail down the syntax and I can integrate it into my createam
patch.
I would prefer "CREATE {INDEX | SEQUENCE | ... } ACCESS METHOD name HANDLER
handler;", but I don't insist.

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