Re: postgres_fdw does not see enums

On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 05:38:47PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > I've been trying out 9.5-to-be's PostgreSQL FDW, and I noticed
> > that it doesn't seem to handle enum types. Would this be a
> > trivial fix?
>
> No. How would you know whether the remote side even has the enum,
> let alone whether it has an identical set of members? I don't see
> that enums are noticeably easier than the general case of
> non-built-in types ...

I must be missing something important. When querying the remote side,
*and it's PostgreSQL*, we have catalog access that could be used to
reconstruct the enums. Or are you thinking about the case where the
enum changes from one call to the next?

Cheers,
David.
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