Re: Big 7.1 open items

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: Big 7.1 open items
Date: 2000-06-19 00:12:22
Message-ID: 3.0.1.32.20000618171222.011c7af0@mail.pacifier.com
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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.

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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