Re: Pluggable Indexes (was Re: rmgr hooks (v2)) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Pluggable Indexes (was Re: rmgr hooks (v2))
Date
Msg-id 200901220008.n0M083h19674@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Pluggable Indexes (was Re: rmgr hooks (v2))  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 18:06 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Plugability adds complexity. Heikki's comment is that adding this
> > patch make the job of creating pluggable indexes 5% easier, while no
> > one is actually working on plugable indexes, and it hard to say that
> > making it 5% easier really advances anything, especially since many of
> > our existing index types aren't WAL-logged.  Plugability is not a
> > zero-cost feature.
> 
> Sorry Bruce, but that misses the key point.

I understood the key point.

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