Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 12:50 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>
> On 2020-Nov-24, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > > Oh, I thought it had been suggested in previous discussions that these
> > > should be treated as access methods rather than inventing a whole new
> > > concept just for this, and it seemed like a good idea to me. I guess I
> > > missed the fact that the patch wasn't doing it that way. Hmm.
> >
> > FWIW, I kind of agree with Robert's take on this.  Heap and index AMs
> > are pretty fundamentally different animals, yet we don't have a problem
> > sticking them in the same catalog.  I think anything that is related to
> > storage access could reasonably go into that catalog, rather than
> > inventing a new one.
>
> Right -- Something like amname=lz4, amhandler=lz4handler, amtype=c.
> The core code must of course know how to instantiate an AM of type
> 'c' and what to use it for.
>
> https://postgr.es/m/20171213151818.75a20259@postgrespro.ru

I have changed this, I agree that using the access method for creating
compression has simplified the code.  I will share the updated patch
set after fixing other review comments by Robert.

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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
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