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Re: WIP: Access method extendability

Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>

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From: Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>
To: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Cc: Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-03-29T17:34:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:29 PM, Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> wrote:

> I incorporated your changes and did some additional refinements on top of
>> them
>> still.
>>
>> Attached is delta against v12, that should cause less issues when merging
>> for
>> Teodor.
>>
>
> But last version is 13th?
>
> BTW, it would be cool to add odcs in VII. Internals chapter, description
> should be similar to index's interface description, i.e. how to use generic
> WAL interface.


We already have generic WAL interface description in comments to
generic_xlog.c.  I'm not fan of duplicating things.  What about moving
interface description from comments to docs completely?

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Alexander Korotkov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company

Commits

  1. Support CREATE ACCESS METHOD

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