From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Selena Deckelmann <selena@chesnok.com>
Cc: Zheng Yang <zhengyang4k@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-students@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: foreign data wrappers
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:45:36 -0400
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On 03/21/2011 12:57 PM, Selena Deckelmann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Zheng Yang<zhengyang4k@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> in the GSOC wiki, there is a potential project idea mentioning "Write
>> Foreign Data Wrappers
>> for several external data sources (ODBC, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL,
>> CouchDB, Redis, etc.)"
>> Can anyone help explain how these wrapper are going to be like?
> Have a look at http://wiki.postgresql.org/images/4/4c/SQLMED-FOSDEM2009.pdf
> for starters. See if you can review that and come back with more
> specific questions.
>
> There are a few community members interested in seeing this move
> forward, so this project is likely a great one for GSoC.
>
> My suggestion would be to pick just one or two for this summer's project.
>
Yes, but 9.1 *has* actual FDWs. The best thing to do (other than
attending my talk on Thursday :-) ) is to look at the file_fdw module in
git head, to see an actual working example.
cheers
andrew
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