Re: Pluggable storage

On 2017/06/22 10:01, Michael Paquier wrote:
> #3 implies that the index AM logic is implemented in the table
> AM. Not saying that it is not useful, but it does not feel natural to
> have the planner request for a sequential scan, just to have the table
> AM secretly do some kind of index/skipping scan.

I had read a relevant comment on a pluggable storage thread awhile back
[1]. In short, the comment was that the planner should be able to get
some intelligence, via some API, from the heap storage implementation
about the latter's access cost characteristics. The storage should
provide accurate-enough cost information to the planner when such a
request is made by, say, cost_seqscan(), so that the planner can make
appropriate choice. If two tables containing the same number of rows (and
the same size in bytes, perhaps) use different storage implementations,
then, planner's cost parameters remaining same, cost_seqscan() will end up
calculating different costs for the two tables. Perhaps, SeqScan would be
chosen for one table but not the another based on that.

Thanks,
Amit

[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BTgmoY3LXVUPQVdZW70XKp5PsXffO82pXXt%3DbeegcV%2B%3DRsQgg%40mail.gmail.com