Re: dblink without running the full query remotely?

Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com> writes:
> Per the documentation -- *dblink fetches the entire remote query result
> before returning any of it to the local system* -- I am guessing the answer
> is no, but I wondered if there was some way to do something like this:
> ...
> Where that remote sometable might have a bajillion rows and the local where
> would be passed to it

No, and it's unlikely anyone would ever put effort into making dblink
do that, because the newer foreign table (FDW) code *does* handle that
sort of thing.  dblink still has its uses, but it's pretty much at a
dead end developmentally.  Take a look at postgres_fdw.

                        regards, tom lane