| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Shigeru Hanada <shigeru(dot)hanada(at)gmail(dot)com>, Shigeru Hanada <hanada(at)metrosystems(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: FOREIGN TABLE doc fix |
| Date: | 2011-06-13 15:38:49 |
| Message-ID: | 4DF62F09.4060004@dunslane.net |
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On 06/13/2011 10:25 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>
>> Don't hold your breath. We'll probably be making enough changes in the
>> FDW infrastructure (particularly planner support) that making an FDW
>> work on both 9.1 and 9.2 would be an exercise in frustration, if it's
>> even possible.
> Oh joy. There's a GSoC student working on 2 non-trivial FDW's right
> now, and I have a couple I've been working on. If we're going to make
> the API incompatible to that extent, we might as well not bother :-(
>
If nobody bothers then there won't be any experience on which to base a
stable API. In particular, I think it's crucial that we get working FDWs
for MySQL, SQLServer and Oracle ASAP.
cheers
andrew
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