On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:58 PM Kazutaka Onishi <onishi@heterodb.com> wrote:
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> That's because using the foreign server is difficult for the user.
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> For example, the user doesn't always have the permission to login to the forein server.
> In some cases, the foreign table has been created by the administrator that has permission to access the two servers
andthe user only uses the local server.
> Then the user has to ask the administrator to run TRUNCATE every time.
That might actually be seen as a loophole but ...
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> Furthermore,there are some fdw extensions which don't support SQL. mongo_fdw, redis_fdw, etc...
> These extensions have been used to provide SQL interfaces to the users.
> It's hard for the user to run TRUNCATE after learning each database.
this has some appeal.
Thanks for sharing the usecases.
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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat
