Re: IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA statement - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
> > With that, I am marking this patch as ready for committer.
> 
> I've started looking at this patch.  I wonder whether it's really such
> a great idea to expect the FDW to return a list of parsetrees for
> CREATE FOREIGN TABLE commands; that seems like a recipe for breakage
> anytime we change the parsetree representation, say add a field to
> ColumnDef.  The alternative I'm thinking about is to have the FDW pass
> back a list of strings, which would be textual CREATE FOREIGN TABLE
> commands.

.oO(json blobs as in the DDL deparse patch ...)

(I don't know if they are really suitable.  I have no idea how this
patch works.)

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