Re: Foreign table permissions and cloning - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Foreign table permissions and cloning
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Msg-id BANLkTikHf+appuBddwckXcLKOaFYkadLMA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Foreign table permissions and cloning  (Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>)
Responses Re: Foreign table permissions and cloning  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
> On 1 April 2011 12:57, Shigeru HANADA <hanada@metrosystems.co.jp> wrote:
>> NOT NULL constraint on foreign table is just declaration and can't
>> force data integrity.  And I noticed that CREATE FOREIGN TABLE
>> document doesn't mention that serial and bigserial can't be used in
>> foreign table.  Please see foreign_table_doc.patch for this fix.
>
> I'd be inclined to generalise it to say that default values can't be
> used on a foreign table, and then say that as a result, serial and
> bigserial can't be used.

+1.

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