Re: Status of FDW pushdowns

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Shigeru Hanada <shigeru(dot)hanada(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Denis Lussier <denis(dot)lussier(at)openscg(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Status of FDW pushdowns
Date: 2013-12-05 01:02:38
Message-ID: 30225.1386205358@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 03:04:31PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If that's the argument, why not just use dblink or dbilink, and be
>> happy? This discussion sounds a whole lot like it's trending to a
>> conclusion of wanting one of those in core, which is not where I'd
>> like to end up.

> Telling people who've already installed and configured an FDW that for
> perfectly ordinary expected functionality they'll need to install yet
> another piece of software, configure it, keep its configuration in
> sync with the FDW configuration, etc., is just a ridiculous.

Perfectly ordinary expected functionality according to who? Not the
SQL standard, for sure.

regards, tom lane

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