Re: Pluggable storage

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Alexander Korotkov
> <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 4:01 AM, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>> Putting that in a couple of words.
>>> 1. Table AM with a 6-byte TID.
>>> 2. Table AM with a custom locator format, which could be TID-like.
>>> 3. Table AM with no locators.
>>>
>>> Getting into having #1 first to work out would already be really
>>> useful for users.
>>
>> What exactly would be useful for *users*? Any kind of API itself is
>> completely useless for users, because they are users, not developers.
>> Storage API could be useful for developers to implement storage AMs whose in
>> turn could be useful for users.
>
> What's your point? I assume that is what Michael meant.

Sorry for the confusion. I implied here that users are the ones
developing modules.
--
Michael