Re: Planned changes to pg_am catalog

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Since I am about to add a "bulk delete" routine to the index access
> method APIs for concurrent VACUUM, I need to add a column to pg_am
> to define the associated procedure for each index AM. This seems like
> a fine time to clean up some of the other outstanding TODO items for
> pg_am:
>
> Note that this doesn't address Oleg's concerns about haskeytype,
> lossiness, etc. AFAICS those issues are not related to the contents
> of pg_am. Later on, I am going to have some proposals for altering
> pg_opclass and related tables to deal with those issues...

Any chance you'd untie a knot for our development in 7.2 development
cycle ? Our code for multikey GiST, Btree is more or less complete
and work with ugly workaround, and the only thing we need is a
solution of the problem with index_formtuple.

>
> Comments? Any other festering problems in this immediate area?
>
> regards, tom lane
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Regards,
Oleg
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