Re: pgsql_fdw, FDW for PostgreSQL server

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 19:25, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
> On 10/26/2011 12:47 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>
>>> If that was what he meant, I'd vote against it.  There are way too many
>>> people who will *not* want their databases configured to be able to
>>> reach out onto the net.  This feature should be something that has to be
>>> installed by explicit user action.
>>
>> That is not what I meant.
>>
>> I meant installed the shared library by defualt, but still require
>> CREATE EXTENSION.
>>
>
> I don't see why it should be different from other standard modules, such as
> citext or hstore, both of which have pretty wide use, and less possible
> security implications than this.

As I stated earlier, it's really back to the old discussion of
splitting up contrib. This would be the "additional module" part, but
not the "example of how to do things" part of that...

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