Re: FOREIGN TABLE doc fix

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Incidentally, are you planning to revive the PostgreSQL FDW for 9.2?
>>>> That would be a killer feature.
>
>>> Even more killer would be that it could be built/packaged as an
>>> extension, and use for 9.1 too ;-)
>
>> +1!
>
> Don't hold your breath.  We'll probably be making enough changes in the
> FDW infrastructure (particularly planner support) that making an FDW
> work on both 9.1 and 9.2 would be an exercise in frustration, if it's
> even possible.

Well, so far the people who seem willing to work on such changes are
not exactly thick on the ground, so I think it might be a little
premature to speculate about what changes they might make when they
show up.

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