| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Pluggable Indexes |
| Date: | 2009-01-21 16:11:51 |
| Message-ID: | 49774947.3020409@enterprisedb.com |
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> But to do that we need an abstract interface that doesn't depend on internal
> data structures, not a generic plugin facility that allows the plugin to
> hijack the whole system.
>
> We need something more like indexams which provides a set of call points which
> do specific functions, only get called when they're needed, and are expected
> to only do the one thing they've been asked to do.
That's called GiST. ;-)
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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