Re: FOREIGN TABLE doc fix

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

To: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>, Shigeru Hanada <shigeru.hanada@gmail.com>, Shigeru Hanada <hanada@metrosystems.co.jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-06-13T15:38:49Z

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On 06/13/2011 10:25 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>
>> Don't hold your breath.  We'll probably be making enough changes in the
>> FDW infrastructure (particularly planner support) that making an FDW
>> work on both 9.1 and 9.2 would be an exercise in frustration, if it's
>> even possible.
> Oh joy. There's a GSoC student working on 2 non-trivial FDW's right
> now, and I have a couple I've been working on. If we're going to make
> the API incompatible to that extent, we might as well not bother :-(
>

If nobody bothers then there won't be any experience on which to base a 
stable API. In particular, I think it's crucial that we get working FDWs 
for MySQL, SQLServer and Oracle ASAP.

cheers

andrew