Re: disposition of remaining patches

On 02/18/2011 05:47 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> 3, 4, 5. SQL/MED. Tom has picked up the main FDW API patch, which I
> expect means it'll go in. I am not so sure about the FDW patches,
> though: in particular, based on Heikki's comments, the postgresql_fdw
> patch seems to be badly in need of some more work. The file_fdw patch
> may be in better shape (I'm not 100% sure), but it needs the encoding
> fix patch Itagaki Takahiro recently proposed. For this to be
> worthwhile, we presumably need to get at least one FDW committed along
> with the API patch.

I'm not sure it's not useful without, but it would be better with it. I
agree we need some actual uses.

If people want more I'm prepared to put some hurried effort into making
one just for copy to text array, since the consensus didn't seems to be
in favor of piggybacking this onto the file_fdw. That would exercise the
part of the new COPY API that would not otherwise not be exercised by
file_fdw. If not, I'll eventually contribute that for 9.2.

cheers

andrew