Re: WIP: Rework access method interface

On 2015-08-10 17:47, Tom Lane wrote:
> Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> On 2015-08-10 16:58, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
>>> That should work, thanks! Also we can have SQL-visible functions to get
>>> amsupport and amstrategies and use them in the regression tests.
>
>> SQL-visible functions would be preferable to storing it in pg_am as
>> keeping the params in pg_am would limit the extensibility of pg_am itself.
>
> 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.

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