Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Ildus Kurbangaliev <i(dot)kurbangaliev(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods
Date: 2020-11-24 19:20:31
Message-ID: 20201124192031.GA22772@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2020-Nov-24, Tom Lane wrote:

> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

> > Oh, I thought it had been suggested in previous discussions that these
> > should be treated as access methods rather than inventing a whole new
> > concept just for this, and it seemed like a good idea to me. I guess I
> > missed the fact that the patch wasn't doing it that way. Hmm.
>
> FWIW, I kind of agree with Robert's take on this. Heap and index AMs
> are pretty fundamentally different animals, yet we don't have a problem
> sticking them in the same catalog. I think anything that is related to
> storage access could reasonably go into that catalog, rather than
> inventing a new one.

Right -- Something like amname=lz4, amhandler=lz4handler, amtype=c.
The core code must of course know how to instantiate an AM of type
'c' and what to use it for.

https://postgr.es/m/20171213151818.75a20259@postgrespro.ru

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