Re: CREATE ROUTINE MAPPING

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:37:43PM -0500, Corey Huinker wrote:
> A few months ago, I was researching ways for formalizing calling functions
> on one postgres instance from another. RPC, basically. In doing so, I
> stumbled across an obscure part of the the SQL Standard called ROUTINE
> MAPPING, which is exactly what I'm looking for.
> 
> The syntax specified is, roughly:
> 
> CREATE ROUTINE MAPPING local_routine_name FOR remote_routine_spec
> SERVER my_server [ OPTIONS( ... ) ]

[neat use cases elided]

For what it's worth, the now-defunct DBI-Link I wrote had
remote_execute(), which did many of the things you describe here, only
with no help from the rest of PostgreSQL, as it was implemented
strictly in userland.

Best,
David.
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