Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> One thing I want to bring up here rather than in the pluggable storage
> thread is that currently the pg_dump support for access methods deals
> with table access methods in a manner similar to the way we deal with
> tablespaces. Instead of specifying the AM on every table creation, we
> set the default AM when needed. That makes it easier to adjust dumps.
Hm. I wonder if it'd make more sense to consider that an access method is
a property of a tablespace? That is, all tables in a tablespace have the
same access method, so you don't need to label tables individually?
> But it does basically require breaking archive compatibility. I
> personally am OK with that, but I thought it might be worth discussing.
I don't recall there being huge pushback when we did that in the past,
so I'm fine with it as long as there's an identifiable feature making
it necessary.
regards, tom lane
