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Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 16:32:46 -0500
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Subject: Re: Comments on Custom RMGRs
To: "Jeff Davis" <pgsql@j-davis.com>, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
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On Fri May 17, 2024 at 3:20 PM CDT, Jeff Davis wrote:
> ...
>
> Obviously it would be better to have a nice example table AM in
> /contrib, different enough from heap, but nobody has done that yet. You
> could argue that we never should have exposed the API without something
> like this in the first place, but that's also a big ask and we'd
> probably still not have it.

Not sure how useful it would be as an example, but MariaDB has=20
a blackhole storage engine[0], which has helped serve as a guide for me=20
previously.

[0]: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/blackhole/

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Tristan Partin
https://tristan.partin.io