On 7/29/15 2:40 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Qingqing Zhou wrote:
>
>> Can we simplify above with foreign table methods? There are two major
>> concerns about this method per previous discussions: security and
>> usability. I think the main cause is the sharing foreign table design.
>
> I think foreign data wrappers are great. I do not think that we should
> try to shape every problem to look like foreign data so that we can
> solve it with a foreign data wrapper. I am a bit nervous that this
> keeps being brought up.
Agreed.
I think a better option would be shoving it into a backend tuplestore
and just leaving it there (maybe with a command to clear it for the
paranoid). That gives a relation you can query against, insert into
another table, etc.
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