Re: Pluggable Indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Pluggable Indexes
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Msg-id 49774947.3020409@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: Pluggable Indexes  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> But to do that we need an abstract interface that doesn't depend on internal
> data structures, not a generic plugin facility that allows the plugin to
> hijack the whole system.
> 
> We need something more like indexams which provides a set of call points which
> do specific functions, only get called when they're needed, and are expected
> to only do the one thing they've been asked to do.

That's called GiST. ;-)

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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