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

On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 16:25 +0300, Teodor Sigaev wrote:
> >> The external indexam use case doesn't impress me either, and Tom seems to agree 
> >> (http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/24006.1221483138@sss.pgh.pa.us).

> Just for correctness - there is one external index http://www.cs.purdue.edu/spgist/

If there is one even when we don't allow them (!), just think how many
there will be if we did allow them...

The docs for the SP-GiST describe PostgreSQL as "highly extensible". I'd
like that to extend to allowing recoverable extensions also.

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