Re: SQL/MED compatible connection manager

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Martin Pihlak <martin.pihlak@gmail.com> wrote:
> So the proposal is to implement a small subset of SQL/MED to cope with
> connection info management -- connection manager. This will only manage the
> connection metadata and provide the required system catalogs and commands for
> maintaining them. The actual connection management (open/close etc.) is still
> handled by the client modules.

Per SQL:2008, there are no expected changes to SQL/MED from SQL:2003.
As such, two weeks ago, I completed a full review of SQL/MED and am
planning to fully implement it for 8.5.  Currently, I'm working on a
proof of concept and have created a SQL/MED access method (sqlmed) as
well as started implementing the FDW API and hooks into the optimizer
to support remote capabilities, costing, and predicate pushdown.  The
first wrappers I intend to support are ODBC and

This is a large project, and I'm certainly open to assistance :)

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