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Gus Spier <gus.spier@gmail.com> writes:
> If I understand the concepts correctly, FDW not only makes other databases
> available, FDW also offers access to .csv files, plain text, or just about
> anything that can be bullied into some kind of query-able order. Has anyone
> ever tried to connect to redis or elasticache? If so, how did it work out?

Looks like it's been done:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers

(No warranty expressed or implied on the quality of these
particular FDWs.)

			regards, tom lane