Own index methods

2020-05-05 Thread Benjamin Schaller
Hi, in the Postgres documentation it says: "PostgreSQLprovides the index methods B-tree, hash, GiST, SP-GiST, GIN, and BRIN. Users can also define their own index methods, but that is fairly complicated." (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/sql-createindex.html) Even though it's described as

Raw device on PostgreSQL

2020-04-28 Thread Benjamin Schaller
Hey, for an university project I'm currently doing some research on PostgreSQL. I was wondering if hypothetically it would be possible to implement a raw device system to PostgreSQL. I know that the disadvantages would probably be higher than the advantages compared to working with the file s