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tableam: introduce table AM infrastructure.
authorAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Wed, 6 Mar 2019 17:54:38 +0000 (09:54 -0800)
committerAndres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Wed, 6 Mar 2019 17:54:38 +0000 (09:54 -0800)
commit8586bf7ed8889f39a59dd99b292014b73be85342
tree95910aef0fd4f0d271e31e03ba717184166f7c3d
parentf21776185648537a7bb82dfdf89991fb2e0b9ca5
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
50 files changed:
doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
src/backend/access/heap/Makefile
src/backend/access/heap/heapam_handler.c [new file with mode: 0644]
src/backend/access/table/Makefile
src/backend/access/table/tableam.c [new file with mode: 0644]
src/backend/access/table/tableamapi.c [new file with mode: 0644]
src/backend/bootstrap/bootparse.y
src/backend/catalog/genbki.pl
src/backend/catalog/heap.c
src/backend/catalog/index.c
src/backend/catalog/toasting.c
src/backend/commands/amcmds.c
src/backend/commands/cluster.c
src/backend/commands/createas.c
src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
src/backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c
src/backend/parser/gram.y
src/backend/rewrite/rewriteDefine.c
src/backend/utils/adt/pseudotypes.c
src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
src/bin/psql/describe.c
src/bin/psql/help.c
src/bin/psql/settings.h
src/bin/psql/startup.c
src/include/access/tableam.h [new file with mode: 0644]
src/include/catalog/catversion.h
src/include/catalog/heap.h
src/include/catalog/pg_am.dat
src/include/catalog/pg_am.h
src/include/catalog/pg_class.dat
src/include/catalog/pg_class.h
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
src/include/catalog/pg_type.dat
src/include/nodes/nodes.h
src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h
src/include/nodes/primnodes.h
src/include/utils/rel.h
src/include/utils/relcache.h
src/test/regress/expected/create_am.out
src/test/regress/expected/opr_sanity.out
src/test/regress/expected/psql.out
src/test/regress/expected/sanity_check.out
src/test/regress/expected/type_sanity.out
src/test/regress/pg_regress_main.c
src/test/regress/sql/create_am.sql
src/test/regress/sql/opr_sanity.sql
src/test/regress/sql/psql.sql
src/test/regress/sql/type_sanity.sql
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list