Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5636324F4 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:39:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12437-04 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:39:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sd-17937.dedibox.fr (sd-17937.dedibox.fr [88.191.100.74]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D6D632874 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:39:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (uni14-1-82-233-223-216.fbx.proxad.net [82.233.223.216]) by sd-17937.dedibox.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 615B83B8F5; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:39:43 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C40530D.6090402@lelarge.info> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:39:41 +0200 From: Guillaume Lelarge User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); fr; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thom Brown CC: pgsql-docs Subject: Re: Management of External Data (SQL/MED) in core? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.001 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_20=-0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201007/107 X-Sequence-Number: 5763 Le 16/07/2010 14:25, Thom Brown a écrit : > [...] > 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? > Yes, "only" the infrastructure. Foreign Data Wrappers, Servers, and User Mappings are in 8.4. dblink is already able to use these IIRC. -- Guillaume http://www.postgresql.fr http://dalibo.com