Re: Pluggable Indexes (was Re: rmgr hooks (v2))

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Pluggable Indexes (was Re: rmgr hooks (v2))
Date: 2009-01-21 14:01:53
Message-ID: 1232546513.2327.441.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 16:25 +0300, Teodor Sigaev wrote:
> >> The external indexam use case doesn't impress me either, and Tom seems to agree
> >> (http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/24006.1221483138@sss.pgh.pa.us).

> Just for correctness - there is one external index http://www.cs.purdue.edu/spgist/

If there is one even when we don't allow them (!), just think how many
there will be if we did allow them...

The docs for the SP-GiST describe PostgreSQL as "highly extensible". I'd
like that to extend to allowing recoverable extensions also.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support

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