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

Bruce,

> Plugability adds complexity. Heikki's comment is that adding this patch
> make the job of creating pluggable indexes 5% easier, while no one is
> actually working on plugable indexes, and it hard to say that making it
> 5% easier really advances anything, especially since many of our
> existing index types aren't WAL-logged. Plugability is not a zero-cost
> feature.

Right. And I'm saying that pluggability is PostgreSQL's main reason for
existence, if you look at our place in the future of databases. So it's
worth paying *some* cost, provided that the cost/benefit ratio works for
the particular patch.

To rephrase: I can't judge the rmgr patch one way or the other. I'm
only objecting to the idea expressed by Heikki and others that pluggable
indexes are stupid and unnecessary.

--Josh