Re: Feature proposal: www_fdw
Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Alexander Soudakov <cygakob@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-09-28T20:53:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Guys, I suggest Alexander to announce his project just to let all us know and avoid duplicate work. I hope it's a good starter project for Alexander ! I agree with Andrew, it's also should be posted to -general. It's clear it should be an extension ! Oleg On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes: >> Why should this be a core feature, as the subject suggests? It could >> just be an extension, like other FDWs, no? > > In fact it had *better* be an extension, not core, because anything that > allows the server to go out and touch the web is going to be a security > hazard in some people's usages. I can see that some people will want > this type of functionality, but others definitely won't. > > regards, tom lane > > Regards, Oleg _____________________________________________________________ Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru), Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83