Re: pgsql_fdw, FDW for PostgreSQL server

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Shigeru Hanada <shigeru.hanada@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>
Date: 2011-10-26T17:25:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 10/26/2011 12:47 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>> If that was what he meant, I'd vote against it.  There are way too many
>> people who will *not* want their databases configured to be able to
>> reach out onto the net.  This feature should be something that has to be
>> installed by explicit user action.
> That is not what I meant.
>
> I meant installed the shared library by defualt, but still require
> CREATE EXTENSION.
>

I don't see why it should be different from other standard modules, such 
as citext or hstore, both of which have pretty wide use, and less 
possible security implications than this.

cheers

andrew