From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu> |
Subject: | Re: Big 7.1 open items |
Date: | 2000-06-19 00:54:00 |
Message-ID: | 200006190054.UAA20804@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> At 08:08 PM 6/18/00 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >> Does your proposal break the smgr abstraction, i.e. does it
> >> preclude later efforts to (say) implement an (optional)
> >> raw-device storage manager?
> >
> >Seeing very few want that done, I don't see it as an issue at this
> >point.
>
> Sorry, I disagree. There's excuse for breaking existing abstractions
> unless there's a compelling reason to do so.
>
> My question should make it clear I was using a raw-device storage
> manager as an example. There are other possbilities, like a
> many-tables-per-file storage manager.
I agree it is nice to keep things as abstract as possible. I just don't
know if the abstraction will cause added complexity.
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