On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 12:41 +0100, Carsten Kropf wrote:
> I have encountered a problem while implementing an index structure. I don't
> have any access to the RM (I don't know, how to set it up properly) using my
> index. However, when I don't have the situation of working with a temporary
> table, I need to put entries using XLogInsert(...). The problem for me is,
> that based on the fact, that I don't have the access to the RM, I can't put
> proper entries to the xlog facility. How can I achieve that my index
> structure can be stored properly at least?
> I'm getting lots of errors, when I just put a XLogRecPtr with data {1,1} as
> LSN of the page. On the other hand when doing XLogInsert calls to work with
> the component properly I don't know which data to put in there. When I'm
> using some kind of RM_ID (like RM_GIST_ID or something like that) I'm getting
> problems because I don't know which code to insert there. I decided to take
> RM_GIST_ID and an invalid code (so it won't call any of the xlog gist
> implementations upon recovery) which, however failed, too. Unfortunately my
> task is to implement a certain structure with PostgreSQL, so all of my
> current work actually depend on this action.
> I hope that somebody will be able to help me according to this issue.
> Thanks in advance
Each new index type requires a new rmgr to allow it to be recoverable.
The rmgr is not part of the index API, so it is not currently possible
to add a new index type *and* make it recoverable without editing the
server source code.
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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
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