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SQL/MED foreign table

Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp> — 2010-06-15T07:21:32Z

This is a proposal of SQL/MED foreign table for 9.1.
I described the details in the wiki page:
    http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SQL/MED

I'd like to discuss especially about the inteface of FDW routines.
Since it will be a shared by all of FDW extenstions in the future,
it must be as important as index access method interface.

Codes are available at: http://repo.or.cz/w/pgsql-fdw.git
    * master branch is a copy of postgres' HEAD.
    * fdw branch contains FDW codes. 
and the attached files are split patches of WIP codes.

Features in it are:
  - SQL syntax for CREATE/ALTER FOREIGN TABLE.
  - Definition of FDW routine interface and system catalogs for it.
  - Core-integrated "file_fdw", that can be used to read external CSV
    and plain text files. Codes to read files are shared with COPY FROM.
  - Dblink-integrated "postgresql_fdw". Some of simple WHERE-clauses
    can be "pushed down" into the external server.

The last item was discussed separately as a cluster feature:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ClusterFeatures#Function_scan_push-down
Foreign table will be a solution for the issue.

Comments welcome.

Regards,
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Takahiro Itagaki
NTT Open Source Software Center