[HACKERS] static genericcostestimate

2005-04-10 Thread Ramy M. Hassan
Hi, The genericcostestimate function is currently static. This limits the development of new access methods as loadable modules without touching pgsql sources. Currently I have to include a copy of the function in the module, which is obviously too bad. Is there any reason to keep this function

Re: [HACKERS] static genericcostestimate

2005-04-10 Thread Ramy M. Hassan
Tom Lane wrote: "Ramy M. Hassan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The genericcostestimate function is currently static. This limits the development of new access methods as loadable modules without touching pgsql sources. Currently I have to include a copy of the function in the

[HACKERS] implementation guide

2004-08-30 Thread Ramy M. Hassan
Hi all, Is there any updated implementation guide for postgresql 7.x ? I've been using the postgres95 guide at http://pluto.iis.nsk.su/postgres95/impl-guide/ but it is incomplete and also it does not reflect the current state of the code. I can see many structures were modified since postgres95

Re: [HACKERS] sp-gist porting to postgreSQL

2004-11-09 Thread Ramy M. Hassan
ovember 10, 2004 12:35 AM To: Ramy M. Hassan; Pgsql Hackers Cc: Teodor Sigaev; Walid G. Aref Subject: Re: sp-gist porting to postgreSQL Ramy, glad to hear from you ! AFAIK, posgresql doesnt' supports several indices for the same type. I think this is a problem of optimizer. Probably other hackers

Re: [HACKERS] sp-gist porting to postgreSQL

2004-11-10 Thread Ramy M. Hassan
would appreciate your opinions regarding to this design issue. Thanks Ramy -Original Message- From: Oleg Bartunov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 5:21 AM To: Ramy M. Hassan Cc: 'Pgsql Hackers'; 'Teodor Sigaev'; 'Walid G. Aref' S

Re: [HACKERS] sp-gist porting to postgreSQL

2004-11-10 Thread Ramy M. Hassan
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Ramy M. Hassan wrote: I believe that it is still possible to have several index access methods for the same type and the same operations. But this requires that each index access method has its own tuple in the pg_am relation and