Re: [v9.3] writable foreign tables

David Fetter <david@fetter.org>

From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>, Shigeru HANADA <shigeru.hanada@gmail.com>, PgHacker <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-08-28T15:01:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:58:25AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp> writes:
> > It seems to me TargetEntry of the parse tree can inform us which column
> > should be modified on UPDATE or INSERT. If it has just a Var element
> > that reference original table as-is, it means here is no change.
> 
> Only if you're not going to support BEFORE triggers modifying the row...

+1 for supporting these.

Speaking of triggers on foreign tables, what's needed to support them
independent of support at the FDW level for writing on foreign tables,
or does that even make sense?

Cheers,
David.
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