Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA59632C31 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:48:01 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03009-07 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:47:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C395F632C34 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:47:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2010 20:47:51 -0000 Received: from a88-115-218-165.elisa-laajakaista.fi (EHLO [10.0.0.101]) [88.115.218.165] by mail.gmx.net (mp020) with SMTP; 17 Jul 2010 22:47:51 +0200 X-Authenticated: #495269 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX182WdxSgsg20TNkeFZcOorhPNStDNF6VnNGrtNjNQ WgECAxOMOvH7Fy Subject: Re: Management of External Data (SQL/MED) in core? From: Peter Eisentraut To: Thom Brown Cc: pgsql-docs In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:47:50 +0300 Message-ID: <1279399670.28367.3.camel@vanquo.pezone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.011 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_20=-0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201007/124 X-Sequence-Number: 5780 On fre, 2010-07-16 at 13:25 +0100, Thom Brown wrote: > It's probably me not understanding what is being claimed, but on > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/features.html it says > PostgreSQL core covers ISO/IEC 9075-9 Management of External Data > (SQL/MED). I'm aware the actual SQL/MED functionality isn't > implemented yet. Is this purely to do with the provision of foreign > data wrappers, creating servers etc? Maybe "cover" isn't the right verb. It's about what is in scope and what is not.