Re: WIP: Access method extendability

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 5:50 AM, Alexander Korotkov
> <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> And then Alexander posted this version, without any discussion that
> >> evidenced that those old objections were overridden. What happened
> >> here? Did somebody discuss this in unarchived meetings? If so, it
> >> would be good to know about that in this thread.
> >
> > After that Tom Lane committed very huge patch about rework AM API. One of
> > aims of this patch was support for CREATE ACCESS METHOD command.
> > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=65c5fcd353a859da9e61bfb2b92a99f12937de3b
> > I've initially positioned this patch as refactoring for support CREATE
> > ACCESS METHOD command.
> > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAPpHfdtLiSXmXk2b4tW+4+No_1-T0raO5fOYszhO6+Sn2Om+xw@mail.gmail.com
> > During discussing Tom mentioned future CREATE ACCESS METHOD command.
> > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/16164.1439222900@sss.pgh.pa.us
> > I don't think Tom would put so much efforts in this direction if he would
> > remain opposed to this command.
>
> Yeah, I rather thought we had consensus on that.

I vaguely remembered so too, but was startled to see that this thread
didn't have any evidence of it -- I thought I was misremembering. I'm
glad we're all in the same page.

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