Re: Reformatting the FDW wiki page

From: damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reformatting the FDW wiki page
Date: 2015-02-15 21:21:05
Message-ID: 54E10DC1.5060406@dalibo.info
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Le 15/02/2015 22:18, Dave Page a écrit :
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 4:06 PM, damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info> wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> Last time I checked, there's now more that 40 Foreign Data Wrappers in
>> the wild and the wiki that tries to keep track of everything is kind of
>> a mess :
>>
>> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers
>>
>>
>> * The page is way too long to scroll
>> * Separating the "native" FDW from the "multicorn" FDW doesn't really
>> make sense for the end user.
>> * For some data source, they are several FDW living their own lives
>> (mongo for instance)
>> * For each FDW the data provided can easily be standardized ( data
>> source, url, PGXN link, comment, etc.) so that each project can be
>> treated in the same way
>> * We need to find a unified format to update and maintain this data easily
>>
>> So I'd like to start a complete makeover of this page, but before I go
>> bonkers on the wiki syntax, here's a preview :
>>
>> Here's the NoSQL section as it is now :
>> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers#NoSQL_Database_Wrappers
>>
>> Here's the NoSQL section as I'd like it to be :
>> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FDW_v2
>>
>> Any comments ?
>
> I think that's much better - thanks.
>
> Just to note though - EDB took over maintenance of the Mongo FDW from
> Citus Data, with their approval. You should probably only list that
> one once.
>

good to know, I'll update the page.

Does this means that EDB is maintaining the PGXN package as well ?

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