Re: review: FDW API

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Shigeru HANADA <hanada@metrosystems.co.jp>

Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>, Postgres - Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-01-31T13:31:50Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Shigeru HANADA
<hanada@metrosystems.co.jp> wrote:
>> * Is there any use case for changing the handler or validator function
>> of an existign FDW with ALTER? To me it just seems like an unnecessary
>> complication.
>
> AFAICS, the only case for that is upgrading FDW to new one without
> re-creating foreign tables.  I don't have strong opinion for this
> issue, and it seems reasonable to remove ALTER feature in first
> version.

-1.  I don't think that removing the ability to change this is going
to save a measurable amount of complexity, and it certainly will suck
if you need it and don't have it.

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