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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Pluggable Indexes (was Re: rmgr hooks (v2))
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Msg-id 20090122160410.GF4296@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Pluggable Indexes (was Re: rmgr hooks (v2))  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas escribió:

> We allow extensibility and hooks in other parts of the database where
> the use case is pretty thin and tenuous.  I betcha there aren't many
> people who try writing their own eqjoinsel() either.

The PostGIS guys do implement their own selectivity estimators.  In fact
it was them that first implemented pluggability in that area, AFAIR.

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