CREATE ACCESS METHOD
CREATE ACCESS METHOD — define a new access method
Synopsis
CREATE ACCESS METHODname
TYPEaccess_method_type
HANDLERhandler_function
Description
CREATE ACCESS METHOD
creates a new access method.
The access method name must be unique within the database.
Only superusers can define new access methods.
Parameters
name
The name of the access method to be created.
access_method_type
This clause specifies the type of access method to define. Only
TABLE
andINDEX
are supported at present.handler_function
handler_function
is the name (possibly schema-qualified) of a previously registered function that represents the access method. The handler function must be declared to take a single argument of typeinternal
, and its return type depends on the type of access method; forTABLE
access methods, it must betable_am_handler
and forINDEX
access methods, it must beindex_am_handler
. The C-level API that the handler function must implement varies depending on the type of access method. The table access method API is described in Chapter 61 and the index access method API is described in Chapter 62.
Examples
Create an index access method heptree
with handler function heptree_handler
:
CREATE ACCESS METHOD heptree TYPE INDEX HANDLER heptree_handler;
Compatibility
CREATE ACCESS METHOD
is a PostgreSQL extension.