On 04/22/2014 06:39 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > I agree, and indeed that was something like my first reaction to hearing > about this development - FDW seems like a very odd way to handle this. > But the notion of builtin columnar storage suggests to me that we really > need first to tackle how various storage engines might be incorporated > into Postgres. I know this has been a bugbear for many years, but maybe > now with serious proposals for alternative storage engines on the > horizon we can no longer afford to put off the evil day when we grapple > with it.
Yes. *IF* PostgreSQL already supported alternate storage, then the Citus folks might have released their CStore as a storage plugin instead of an FDW. However, if they'd waited for pluggable storage, they'd still be waiting. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
