Re: pgsql_fdw, FDW for PostgreSQL server

Etsuro Fujita <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>

From: Etsuro Fujita <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Shigeru Hanada <shigeru.hanada@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-02-21T11:25:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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(2012/02/15 20:50), Etsuro Fujita wrote:
> (2012/02/14 23:50), Tom Lane wrote:
>>> (2012/02/14 17:40), Etsuro Fujita wrote:
>>>> As discussed at
>>>> that thread, it would have to change the PlanForeignScan API to let the
>>>> FDW generate multiple paths and dump them all to add_path instead of
>>>> returning a FdwPlan struct.

>> I would really like to see that happen in 9.2, because the longer we let
>> that mistake live, the harder it will be to change.  More and more FDWs
>> are getting written.  I don't think it's that hard to do: we just have
>> to agree that PlanForeignScan should return void and call add_path for
>> itself, possibly more than once.
> 
> Agreed.  I fixed the PlanForeignScan API.  Please find attached a patch.
> 
>> If we do that, I'm inclined to think
>> we cou;d get rid of the separate Node type FdwPlan, and just incorporate
>> "List *fdw_private" into ForeignPath and ForeignScan.
> 
> +1  While the patch retains the struct FdwPlan, I would like to get rid
> of it at next version of the patch.

Please find attached an updated version of the patch.

Best regards,
Etsuro Fujita