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
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