Thread: mysql_fdw for postgresql version 16

2025年2月28日(金) 0:54 Sri Mrudula Attili <sri@ebi.ac.uk>:
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> Hello All,
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>  I am looking for a mysql foreign data wrapper in our postgresql v16 environment.
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>  We have a mysql database and postgresql database that needs to read and write data to.
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>  So while going through the reliable mysql_fdw I came across the below
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> https://docs.opengauss.org/en/docs/5.0.0-lite/docs/DatabaseAdministrationGuide/mysql_fdw.html
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> https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/mysql_fdw
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> I wanted to go ahead with the EDB provided extension, but while reading the guide it says "supported database
versions- EPAS 16" 
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> Does that mean it can only be used with the EDB provided postgresql versions and not the standard PGDG ones?
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> Where as the opengauss one says "To compile and use mysql_fdw, the MariaDB development packages must be included in
theenvironment. " 
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> We are not using MariaDB so I am confused to go with which one, please advise.

It should be available as a package via the PGDG community
repositories, e.g. for RPMs:
https://yum.postgresql.org/extensions/mysql_fdw/

Otherwise it should be possible to build it yourself using the MySQL
or MariaDB dev packages.


Regards

Ian Barwick