Re: pgsql_fdw, FDW for PostgreSQL server

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Shigeru Hanada <shigeru.hanada@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>
Date: 2011-10-26T17:30:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 16:37, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 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.

Whether the shlib is installed by default is a decision for packagers to
make, not us.  At best we could make a recommendation.

			regards, tom lane