Re: storage engine , mysql syntax CREATE TABLE t (i INT) ENGINE

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Pierre Emmanuel Gros <Pierre-Emmanuel(dot)Gros(at)limsi(dot)fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: storage engine , mysql syntax CREATE TABLE t (i INT) ENGINE
Date: 2004-07-25 20:40:10
Message-ID: 200407252040.i6PKeA624692@candle.pha.pa.us
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Pierre Emmanuel Gros wrote:
> In mysql, we can wrote a create table like CREATE TABLE t (i
> INT) ENGINE = INNODB||BDB|; where the storage engine is the
> innodb one. This allow to have differents kind of storage
> format, and allow to easly implements memory table or remote
> table. I try to make the same thing for postgresql but i do
> not understand where the logical storage engine is in the source
> code. May i have somme help to find it .

We only have one table type, full transactions, full storage support.
We don't plan to support any sub-optimial storage systems.

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