Re: WAL-support for Pluggable Indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: WAL-support for Pluggable Indexes
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Msg-id 26134.1266776040@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to WAL-support for Pluggable Indexes  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> We already have a pluggable index API, but not one that supports
> recoverability.

> It is a simple patch to add recoverability to the index API, if we have
> the will to do so.

I suggest you go re-read the archives before asserting this is a simple
no-thought-required fix.  If it were, it'd have been done before.

The killer problem as I recall it is how to identify the plugin rmgrs
to use, bearing in mind that you can't rely on looking at the catalogs.
We don't have a design for that, and I don't want one that's been thrown
together under intense schedule pressure.
        regards, tom lane


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