Re: IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA statement

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ronan Dunklau <ronan(dot)dunklau(at)dalibo(dot)com>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA statement
Date: 2014-07-09 18:29:39
Message-ID: 20140709182939.GP6390@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > With that, I am marking this patch as ready for committer.
>
> I've started looking at this patch. I wonder whether it's really such
> a great idea to expect the FDW to return a list of parsetrees for
> CREATE FOREIGN TABLE commands; that seems like a recipe for breakage
> anytime we change the parsetree representation, say add a field to
> ColumnDef. The alternative I'm thinking about is to have the FDW pass
> back a list of strings, which would be textual CREATE FOREIGN TABLE
> commands.

.oO(json blobs as in the DDL deparse patch ...)

(I don't know if they are really suitable. I have no idea how this
patch works.)

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