Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2015-08-10 17:47, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I don't see any particularly good reason to remove amsupport and
>> amstrategies from pg_am. Those are closely tied to the other catalog
>> infrastructure for indexes (pg_amproc, pg_amop) which I don't think are
>> candidates for getting changed by this patch.
> Ok, in that case it seems unlikely that we'll be able to use pg_am for
> any other access methods besides indexes in the future.
I think that's likely for the best anyway; there are too many catalogs
that think a pg_am OID identifies an index AM. Better to create other
catalogs for other types of AMs.
regards, tom lane