Re: FDW state from plan time

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> On 03.04.2011 19:38, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> Dave Page<dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>  writes:
>>>
>>> I can't help thinking I must be missing something obvious here, but is
>>> there any way to persist some data from PlanForeignScan to at least
>>> BeginForeignScan in an FDW? I'm aware of fdwplan->fdw_private, but at
>>> that needs to be copyObject compatible, it's not much use to me.
>
> If you have to, you can encapsulate arbitrary data in a bytea const.
>
>> Or you could use a hash of some other identifying information (perhaps
>> the OID of the foreign server would be sufficient ID for a connection?).
>
> Foreign server + user id, probably. That's what I would recommend in this
> case.

And database in some cases, but yes :-)

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