Re: Pluggable Indexes (was Re: rmgr hooks (v2))

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Pluggable Indexes (was Re: rmgr hooks (v2))
Date: 2009-01-22 16:04:10
Message-ID: 20090122160410.GF4296@alvh.no-ip.org
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Robert Haas escribió:

> We allow extensibility and hooks in other parts of the database where
> the use case is pretty thin and tenuous. I betcha there aren't many
> people who try writing their own eqjoinsel() either.

The PostGIS guys do implement their own selectivity estimators. In fact
it was them that first implemented pluggability in that area, AFAIR.

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