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- <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> supports a set of experimental facilities which
- are intended to allow extension modules to add new scan types to the system.
- Unlike a <a class="link" href="fdwhandler.html" title="Chapter 56. Writing a Foreign Data Wrapper">foreign data wrapper</a>, which is only
- responsible for knowing how to scan its own foreign tables, a custom scan
- provider can provide an alternative method of scanning any relation in the
- system. Typically, the motivation for writing a custom scan provider will
- be to allow the use of some optimization not supported by the core
- system, such as caching or some form of hardware acceleration. This chapter
- outlines how to write a new custom scan provider.
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- Implementing a new type of custom scan is a three-step process. First,
- during planning, it is necessary to generate access paths representing a
- scan using the proposed strategy. Second, if one of those access paths
- is selected by the planner as the optimal strategy for scanning a
- particular relation, the access path must be converted to a plan.
- Finally, it must be possible to execute the plan and generate the same
- results that would have been generated for any other access path targeting
- the same relation.
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