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Re: pgsql_fdw, FDW for PostgreSQL server

Shigeru Hanada <shigeru.hanada@gmail.com>

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From: Shigeru Hanada <shigeru.hanada@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, Etsuro Fujita <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Hitoshi Harada <umi.tanuki@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-02-28T07:46:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
(2012/02/25 7:31), Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Could we name this "postgresql_fdw" instead?  We already have several
> ${productname}_fdw out there, and I don't want to get in the business of
> having to guess variant spellings.

I worry name conflict with existing postgresql_fdw_validator, which is
implemented in backend binary and used by contrib/dblink.  I thought
that we should use another name for PostgreSQL FDW unless we can change
specification of dblink connection string.

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Shigeru Hanada