On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Alexander Korotkov
<a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 4:01 AM, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.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.
> Then while saying that #1 is useful for
> users, it would be nice to keep in mind particular storage AMs which can be
> implemented using #1.
I don't think anybody's arguing with that.
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