Re: FDW table hints - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: FDW table hints
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Msg-id 19737.1304432395@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: FDW table hints  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
Responses Re: FDW table hints  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Susanne Ebrecht
> <susanne@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> When we make such a hint for foreign tables then we should make a similar
>> hint for views.

> A view really isn't a table, unlike a foreign table, so I don't think
> that argument holds.

Well, from the implementation standpoint a foreign table is a lot more
like a view than it is like a table.  I think the real point is that a
hint for this on views would be a waste of translator manpower, because
we've not heard of anyone making that mistake.
        regards, tom lane


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