Re: WIP: Access method extendability

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.

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