Re: Pluggable Storage - Andres's take

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:

> On 2019-03-07 08:52:21 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 6:11 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> > slot that's compatible with the "target" table. You can get compatible
>> > slot callbakcs by calling table_slot_callbacks(), or directly create one
>> > by calling table_gimmegimmeslot() (likely to be renamed :)).
>>
>> Hmm.  I assume the issue is that table_createslot() was already taken
>> for another purpose, so then when you needed another callback you went
>> with table_givemeslot(), and then when you needed a third API to do
>> something in the same area the best thing available was
>> table_gimmeslot(), which meant that the fourth API could only be
>> table_gimmegimmeslot().
>>
>> Does that sound about right?
>
> It was 3 AM, and I thought it was hilarious...

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