Re: IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA statement

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at> writes:
>> In addition to data type mapping questions (which David already raised)
>> I have one problem when I think of the Oracle FDW:
>
>> Oracle follows the SQL standard in folding table names to upper case.
>> So this would normally result in a lot of PostgreSQL foreign tables
>> with upper case names, which would be odd and unpleasant.
>
>> I cannot see a way out of that, but I thought I should mention it.
>
> It seems like it would often be desirable for the Oracle FDW to smash
> all-upper-case names to all-lower-case while importing, so that no quoting
> is needed on either side.  I doubt though that this is so desirable that
> it should happen unconditionally.
>
> Between this and the type-mapping questions, it seems likely that
> we're going to need a way for IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA to accept
> user-supplied control options, which would in general be specific
> to the FDW being used.  (Another thing the SQL committee failed to
> think about.)

Is this part of the SQL standard?  What is it defined to do about
non-table objects?

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