Tag: remote

Waiting for 9.6 – Directly modify foreign tables.

On 18th of March, Robert Haas committed patch:

Directly modify foreign tables.
 
postgres_fdw can now sent an UPDATE or DELETE statement directly to
the foreign server in simple cases, rather than sending a SELECT FOR
UPDATE statement and then updating or deleting rows one-by-one.
 
Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia, Shigeru Hanada, Kyotaro
Horiguchi, Albe Laurenz, Thom Brown, and me.

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Waiting for 9.5 – Implement IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA.

On 10th of July, Tom Lane committed patch:

Implement IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA.
 
This command provides an automated way to create foreign table definitions
that match remote tables, thereby reducing tedium and chances for error.
In this patch, we provide the necessary core-server infrastructure and
implement the feature fully in the postgres_fdw foreign-data wrapper.
Other wrappers will throw a "feature not supported" error until/unless
they are updated.
 
Ronan Dunklau and Michael Paquier, additional work by me

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