Re: Feature proposal: www_fdw

On 09/28/2011 11:41 AM, Alexander Soudakov wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:17 PM, David Fetter<david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:32:37PM +0400, Alexander Soudakov wrote:
>>> Greetings postgres hackers!
>>>
>>> Here you can find www_fdw feature documentation:
>>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/WWW_FDW
>>>
>>> Looking forward for your feedback.
>> Do you have some libraries you plan to base this on, or will you be
>> hand-tooling it all?
> I was planning to use 3rd party libraries for json/xml/yaml,
> interactions with services. The same way as FWD from here
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers do.
>
> But now I guess it might be a problem to include it under contrib
> directory (same way as file_fdw), right?
>

Postgres is designed to be extensible. Many people are creating FDWs
which are being published elsewhere, like <http://pgxn.org/>. There is
no need to put them all in contrib or anywhere else in the core code.

cheers

andrew