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author | Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> | 2019-03-06 09:54:38 -0800 |
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committer | Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> | 2019-03-06 09:54:38 -0800 |
commit | 8586bf7ed8889f39a59dd99b292014b73be85342 (patch) | |
tree | 95910aef0fd4f0d271e31e03ba717184166f7c3d /src/include/catalog/pg_class.h | |
parent | f21776185648537a7bb82dfdf89991fb2e0b9ca5 (diff) | |
download | postgresql-8586bf7ed8889f39a59dd99b292014b73be85342.tar.gz |
tableam: introduce table AM infrastructure.
This introduces the concept of table access methods, i.e. CREATE
ACCESS METHOD ... TYPE TABLE and
CREATE TABLE ... USING (storage-engine).
No table access functionality is delegated to table AMs as of this
commit, that'll be done in following commits.
Subsequent commits will incrementally abstract table access
functionality to be routed through table access methods. That change
is too large to be reviewed & committed at once, so it'll be done
incrementally.
Docs will be updated at the end, as adding them incrementally would
likely make them less coherent, and definitely is a lot more work,
without a lot of benefit.
Table access methods are specified similar to index access methods,
i.e. pg_am.amhandler returns, as INTERNAL, a pointer to a struct with
callbacks. In contrast to index AMs that struct needs to live as long
as a backend, typically that's achieved by just returning a pointer to
a constant struct.
Psql's \d+ now displays a table's access method. That can be disabled
with HIDE_TABLEAM=true, which is mainly useful so regression tests can
be run against different AMs. It's quite possible that this behaviour
still needs to be fine tuned.
For now it's not allowed to set a table AM for a partitioned table, as
we've not resolved how partitions would inherit that. Disallowing
allows us to introduce, if we decide that's the way forward, such a
behaviour without a compatibility break.
Catversion bumped, to add the heap table AM and references to it.
Author: Haribabu Kommi, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Dimitri Golgov and others
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
https://postgr.es/m/20160812231527.GA690404@alvherre.pgsql
https://postgr.es/m/20190107235616.6lur25ph22u5u5av@alap3.anarazel.de
https://postgr.es/m/20190304234700.w5tmhducs5wxgzls@alap3.anarazel.de
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include/catalog/pg_class.h')
-rw-r--r-- | src/include/catalog/pg_class.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_class.h b/src/include/catalog/pg_class.h index 5d82ce09a6..ad698c9e84 100644 --- a/src/include/catalog/pg_class.h +++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_class.h @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ CATALOG(pg_class,1259,RelationRelationId) BKI_BOOTSTRAP BKI_ROWTYPE_OID(83,Relat Oid reloftype; /* OID of entry in pg_type for underlying * composite type */ Oid relowner; /* class owner */ - Oid relam; /* index access method; 0 if not an index */ + Oid relam; /* access method; 0 if not a table / index */ Oid relfilenode; /* identifier of physical storage file */ /* relfilenode == 0 means it is a "mapped" relation, see relmapper.c */ |