Re: The plan for FDW-based sharding - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: The plan for FDW-based sharding
Date
Msg-id 20160301153742.GA5820@momjian.us
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In response to Re: The plan for FDW-based sharding  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: The plan for FDW-based sharding
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On Tue, Mar  1, 2016 at 10:19:45AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Two reasons:
> > 1. There is no ideal implementation of DTM which will fit all possible needs
> > and be  efficient for all clusters.
> 
> Hmm, what is the reasoning behind that statement?  I mean, it is
> certainly true that there are some places where we have decided that
> one-size-fits-all is not the right approach.  Indexing, for example.

Uh, is that even true of indexing?  While the plug-in nature of indexing
allows for easier development and testing, does anyone create plug-in
indexing that isn't shipped by us?  I thought WAL support was something
that prevented external indexing solutions from working.

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