Re: pgsql_fdw, FDW for PostgreSQL server

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Shigeru Hanada <shigeru(dot)hanada(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Etsuro Fujita <fujita(dot)etsuro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql_fdw, FDW for PostgreSQL server
Date: 2012-03-05 21:19:40
Message-ID: 13096.1330982380@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> I'm inclined to think that if we provide this function in core at all,
> it should take a parameter list long enough to let it fill in the Path
> completely. That would imply that any future changes in Path structs
> would result in a change in the parameter list, which would break
> callers --- but it would break them in an obvious way that the C
> compiler would complain about. If we leave it as-is, those same callers
> would be broken silently, because they'd just be failing to fill in
> the new Path fields.

I've committed the PlanForeignScan API change, with that change and
some other minor editorialization. The pgsql_fdw patch now needs an
update, so I set it back to Waiting On Author state.

regards, tom lane

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