Re: FOREIGN TABLE doc fix - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: FOREIGN TABLE doc fix
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Msg-id 4DF62F09.4060004@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: FOREIGN TABLE doc fix  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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On 06/13/2011 10:25 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>
>> Don't hold your breath.  We'll probably be making enough changes in the
>> FDW infrastructure (particularly planner support) that making an FDW
>> work on both 9.1 and 9.2 would be an exercise in frustration, if it's
>> even possible.
> Oh joy. There's a GSoC student working on 2 non-trivial FDW's right
> now, and I have a couple I've been working on. If we're going to make
> the API incompatible to that extent, we might as well not bother :-(
>

If nobody bothers then there won't be any experience on which to base a 
stable API. In particular, I think it's crucial that we get working FDWs 
for MySQL, SQLServer and Oracle ASAP.

cheers

andrew


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