FDWs, foreign servers and user mappings

From: Joe Abbate <jma(at)freedomcircle(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: FDWs, foreign servers and user mappings
Date: 2012-03-07 21:16:47
Message-ID: 4F57D03F.2020706@freedomcircle.com
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Hi,

We've been discussing the subject in the pyrseas-general ML, but I think
it would be beneficial to get feedback from a broader audience.

The Pyrseas dbtoyaml utility outputs the objects in YAML, which ends up
looking like a tree (see
http://pyrseas.readthedocs.org/en/latest/dbtoyaml.html ) and similar to
the tree in pgAdmin's Object Browser panel.

Any object that is owned by a schema (tables, functions, etc.) is listed
naturally under the schema. The objects (columns, constraints, etc.)
that belong to a table are listed under the table, and so forth. Only a
few object types fall outside the "schema tree," e.g., casts, languages
(extensions, collations in 9.1).

Because FDW's, foreign servers and user mappings are not directly tied
to a schema and their identifiers must be unique within a given
database, I first added them at the top level, e.g.,

foreign data wrapper fdw1:
...
schema public:
...
server fs1:
wrapper: fdw1
user mapping for PUBLIC server fs1:
options:
- xxx=yyy

A Pyrseas user suggested that servers ought to be listed under the
associated FDW, e.g.,

foreign data wrapper fdw1:
server fs1:
...

The question is whether user mappings should also be listed under the
server, i.e.,

foreign data wrapper fdw1:
server fs1:
user mapping for PUBLIC:
options:
- xxx=yyy

Does that make sense? And if so, will it make sense in the future
(considering potential FDW developments)?

A related question was whether user mapping options, which may include
sensitive data such as passwords, should be output by default. I'm not
sure if this should extend to other FDW-related options, since a server
option could presumably be a URI that includes logon information.

Thanks in advance.

Joe

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