Re: Pluggable storage - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Pluggable storage
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In response to Re: Pluggable storage  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: Pluggable storage  (Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>)
Re: Pluggable storage  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On 16 August 2016 at 19:46, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2016-08-15 12:02:18 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Thanks for taking a stab at this.  I'd like to throw out a few concerns.
>>
>> One, I'm worried that adding an additional layer of pointer-jumping is
>> going to slow things down and make Andres' work to speed up the
>> executor more difficult.  I don't know that there is a problem there,
>> and if there is a problem I don't know what to do about it, but I
>> think it's something we need to consider.
>
> I'm quite concerned about that as well.

This objection would apply to all other proposals as well, FDW etc..

Do you see some way to add flexibility yet without adding a branch
point in the code?

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