On 04/22/2014 06:39 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I agree, and indeed that was something like my first reaction to hearing
> about this development - FDW seems like a very odd way to handle this.
> But the notion of builtin columnar storage suggests to me that we really
> need first to tackle how various storage engines might be incorporated
> into Postgres. I know this has been a bugbear for many years, but maybe
> now with serious proposals for alternative storage engines on the
> horizon we can no longer afford to put off the evil day when we grapple
> with it.
Yes. *IF* PostgreSQL already supported alternate storage, then the
Citus folks might have released their CStore as a storage plugin instead
of an FDW. However, if they'd waited for pluggable storage, they'd
still be waiting.
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Josh Berkus
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