Re: 7.2.3? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 7.2.3?
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Msg-id 10628.1033309730@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 7.2.3?  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>)
Responses Re: 7.2.3?
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Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:
> The initial Postgres design had a notion of StorageManager's, which
> should make this very easy indeed, if it had been kept working .

But the storage manager interface was never built to hide issues like
tuple representation --- storage managers just deal in raw pages.
I doubt it would have helped in the least for anything we've been
concerned about.
        regards, tom lane


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