Re: Pluggable Indexes

From: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(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
Date: 2009-01-23 09:54:39
Message-ID: 497993DF.5070603@sigaev.ru
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> Hmm, IIRC it is based on a monotonically increasing number. It could
> have been anything. LSN was just a monotonically increasing number that
> would be available if WAL was implemented first (or in parallel).

You are right, but without WAL-logging we would need to implement some kind of
sequence :)

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