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Re:PostgreSQL 9.6 Released by ioltas on Thursday September 29, 2016 @09:46AM (#12605179)
The discussion is moving on lately with a refactoring to create an access method handler for tables: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d7e41e76-e565-8bc0-4e9...

Here is as well some documentation on the matter: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HeapamRefactoring

Having "CREATE ACCESS METHOD [...] ON STORAGE|TABLE" to create a custom access method, or storage engine, and extending CREATE TABLE to be able to pass a storage method with the table definition could become a quite powerful combination. The main challenge is to come up with an interface solid enough to be able to handle problems related to MVCC, like VACUUM cleanup.

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