From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
 Shigeru Hanada <shigeru.hanada@gmail.com>,
 Etsuro Fujita <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
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Subject: Re: inherit support for foreign tables
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Comments: In-reply-to Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
 message dated "Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:21:36 -0500"
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:30:37 -0500
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> I agree that using the FDW-specific options is the right approach and
> disallowing those to be set on foreign tables makes sense.  I don't
> particularly like the idea of applying changes during inheiritance
> which we wouldn't allow the user to do directly.  While it might be a
> no-op and no FDW might use it, it'd still be confusing.

If we don't allow it directly, why not?  Seems rather arbitrary.

			regards, tom lane


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