Re: foreign data wrappers

On 03/21/2011 12:57 PM, Selena Deckelmann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Zheng Yang<zhengyang4k(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> in the GSOC wiki, there is a potential project idea mentioning "Write
>> Foreign Data Wrappers
>> for several external data sources (ODBC, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL,
>> CouchDB, Redis, etc.)"
>> Can anyone help explain how these wrapper are going to be like?
> Have a look at http://wiki.postgresql.org/images/4/4c/SQLMED-FOSDEM2009.pdf
> for starters. See if you can review that and come back with more
> specific questions.
>
> There are a few community members interested in seeing this move
> forward, so this project is likely a great one for GSoC.
>
> My suggestion would be to pick just one or two for this summer's project.
>

Yes, but 9.1 *has* actual FDWs. The best thing to do (other than
attending my talk on Thursday :-) ) is to look at the file_fdw module in
git head, to see an actual working example.

cheers

andrew